Ver"bi*age (?; 48), n. [F. verbiage, from OF. verbe a word. See Verb.]
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking.
W. Irving.
This barren verbiage current among men.
Tennyson.
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