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BK:06:e Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing
38404 plainly 32229 precious 21748 manner 16848 barbarous 14013 in 13366 termed 11543 short 10177 plainely 8320 pretious 6083 eloquent 5706 clearly 4780 feeble 4759 vehement 4667 simile 4558 vehemently 4413 terme 4308 express 4256 handling 4007 lofty 3908 allusion 3480 term 3364 metaphor 3361 aptly 3263 tearmed 3004 expresse 2969 figured 2904 writings 2736 penitent 2730 playnly 2700 digression 2531 copious 2453 brief 2088 figurative 2023 coherence 2005 tearme 1989 insolencies 1988 maner 1941 dilated 1898 playnely 1810 plain 1798 plain 1773 confusedly 1768 insolency 1754 bald 1541 similes 1501 copiously 1490 metaphorically 1484 confused 1476 metaphorical 1463 metaphors 1401 licence 1392 dilate 1391 gorgeous 1377 bold 1345 airy 1312 plaine 1297 penitents 1255 flores 1240 term'd 1234 ample 1219 babylonish 1206 loftie 1149 vigour 1135 writing 1132 lively 1129 conceit 1115 figuratively 1111 vehementer 1107 terms 1092 decorum 1089 simply 1073 parenthesis 1065 plainness 1044 simple 1042 antithesis 1034 dilatation 1018 clearely 1015 termeth 1011 elegancy 1009 precyous 995 feble 991 figuratiue 983 barbarity 980 directly 979 abode 972 emphatically 932 scorners 897 ponderous 860 cogent 854 plainlie 842 tediousnesse 807 flores 774 synecdoche 771 perspicuous 756 flowry 740 plaine 738 barbarisme 733 figure 724 manners 715 amplification 705 briefly 685 eloquently 668 polite 654 metaphoricall 653 prolixity 651 allusions 631 dissimilitude 625 excessive 616 figuratiuely 600 terming 592 russet 584 scorner 581 cleerly 566 tediousness 562 surplusage 547 apt 545 barbarism 541 stately 538 digressions 534 rhetorician 533 plainnesse 527 digressed 512 concise 502 termes 490 plainelie 481 cleerely 476 playne 475 allegorically 475 compendiously 474 facetious 472 dilating 463 fluid 460 tediousnes 450 hyperbole 444 once 441 figur'd 438 clerely 437 taffata 434 expatiate 431 periphrasis 431 nakedly 416 harsh 414 digresse 408 rare 406 gorgious 404 tearmeth 399 style 388 affected 388 lacedaemonian 382 aery 375 apostrophe 375 botches 373 digress 370 feeblenesse 368 botch 367 sublimity 363 scantly 360 prolix 356 vigor 355 preciouse 345 obscure 341 succinct 341 similies 341 circumstantial 341 metonymy 339 ayrie 336 elegant 335 liuely 332 gorgeously 331 imagery 330 puffing 330 dilates 325 weighty 323 analogically 319 metonymically 318 in 314 conceits 314 figuring 312 structure 310 smug 309 multiply 308 to 307 speak 307 so 306 balde 301 circumlocution 295 barbarities 290 forsooth 288 rhetoricians 281 tearm 281 emphatical 276 fine 275 elegancies 274 flowrie 270 asperity 269 weak 268 humour 267 discursive 265 infolding 263 obscurity
BK:06:e:01 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Clarity
  5706 clearly 4308 express 3004 expresse 2023 coherence 1018 clearely 771 perspicuous 581 cleerly 481 cleerely 438 clerely 256 expressed 243 expresly 215 perspicuity 201 coherent 141 explicite 131 plain 126 lucid 121 perspicuously 117 precisely 115 explicit 114 formally 104 implicit 103 implicite 95 pellucid 53 clarity 53 clerly 53 openly 47 exprest 41 expressly 37 digested 37 coherently 35 clearness 33 luminous 33 expres 33 disgesting 33 cohere 32 expressely 31 clerelye 28 perspicuitie 22 luculent 22 out 21 spell 18 expressedly 17 digest 17 plaine 17 enunciative 16 luculently 15 explicitly 15 coherences 14 sequacious 14 explained 14 syllabically 13 disgests 12 plainer 12 transparency 10 explicately
BK:06:e:02 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Obscurity
  3906 allusion 1773 confusedly 1484 confused 1219 babylonish 647 allusions 345 obscure 265 infolding 263 obscurity 119 allusive 104 intricately 97 intricate 88 alluding 84 allude 72 alludes 66 darkness 63 allusively 60 enfoldings 45 indeterminately 38 obscuritie 37 confusedlie 35 obscurely 30 alluded 26 unclearness 24 difficulty 24 oblique 22 muddy 20 dark 19 obscurities 17 enfolding 17 indeterminate 15 crabbed 15 torturous 14 implicitly 13 implicancy 12 overthwartly 12 raggedly 12 undeterminate 12 confus'd 11 difficulties 11 confus'dly 10 mysterious
BK:06:e:03 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Conciseness
  14013 in 11543 short 2453 brief 705 briefly 512 concise 475 compendiously 444 once 408 rare 388 lacedaemonian 363 scantly 341 succinct 289 in 251 a 234 little 161 concisely 135 brief 124 laconick 109 briefely 95 total 71 conciseness 71 short 67 and 66 sweet 64 compression 58 roundly 51 curtal 41 lacedaemonian 41 laconic 38 briefness 34 briefenesse 33 compactly 33 shortly 32 totall 31 few 28 cutted 27 condensed 27 breifly 27 abbreviated 27 laconie 27 succinctly 27 elliptical 24 compendiousness 23 condens'd 23 little 23 a 21 elliptically 21 epigrammatic 20 compendious 20 brefely 20 laconical 20 word 20 brieflie 19 abbreviate 18 compressed 17 breefely 14 laconism 14 breefly 12 laconically 12 cuttedly 11 briefenes 10 condense 10 curt 10 monosyllable
BK:06:e:04 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Copiousness
  2700 digression 2531 copious 1941 dilated 1501 copiously 1392 dilate 1234 ample 1034 dilatation 842 tediousnesse 715 amplification 653 prolixity 566 tediousness 562 surplusage 538 digressions 527 digressed 472 dilating 460 tediousnes 434 expatiate 431 periphrasis 414 digresse 373 digress 360 prolix 341 circumstantial 330 dilates 309 multiply 301 circumlocution 267 discursive 252 prolixitie 244 prosecute 238 amplifications 231 exuberant 194 dilate 191 dilation 190 circumstantiall 188 amply 164 multiplied 145 effusion 144 circumlocutions 143 copiousness 133 wordy 131 long-winded 114 circumstantially 113 longanimity 112 digressing 111 accident 108 reiterated 107 multiplyed 103 sojourn 101 prolixe 97 prosecuted 95 digrest 94 dilating 92 multiplying 92 circumstances 91 digresse 81 circumquaque 79 accidentals 78 discoursive 73 expatiated 71 interposition 62 verbosity 55 dilatations 55 it 55 suppletory 52 expatiating 49 dilates 45 prolixly 45 reiterated 45 digress 44 prosecuting 43 expostulate 42 expatiates 42 repeated 41 wordish 40 reiterate 39 expletive 39 verbose 38 digressive 37 wind 37 dilations 35 circling 35 digress'd 32 lengthened 32 digresseth 32 excursus 30 multiply'd 29 disgression 29 exorbitant 28 diffusively 28 elaborated 27 circlings 27 enlarging 26 periphrases 26 oblong 25 transversal 25 lengthned 25 sojourne 25 expletive 24 lavish 24 ampler 24 battologies 23 repeat 23 tautologize 23 prolixious 23 circumstance 22 paraphrase 22 multiplies 20 wire-drawn 20 battology 20 reiteration 19 longly 18 periphrase 18 expatiation 18 accidents 18 dylated 17 amplest 16 effusions 16 particularities 16 diffusiveness 16 multiplie 15 digresses 15 largely 15 longueur 15 longinquity 14 sprawling 14 expletives 13 expostulating 13 discursively 12 exuberous 12 parathesis 12 enlargedly 12 prolixities 12 reiterating 11 lengthen'd 11 periphrastically 10 swerve 10 particularity 10 lauishing 10 winding 10 expostulated
BK:06:e:05 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Vigour/force
  6083 eloquent 4759 vehement 4558 vehemently 1377 bold 1149 vigour 1132 lively 1111 vehementer 860 cogent 685 eloquently 625 excessive 356 vigor 335 liuely 325 weighty 252 toothed 233 superlative 231 dashing 193 cutting 174 animated 173 animate 171 vigorous 159 vehementlie 154 excessiue 153 witty 137 eloquente 126 bolde 125 authoritative 120 vehemente 109 soultry 104 emphatical 94 bolder 86 superlatiue 80 pugnant 77 cogency 76 vehementlye 75 superlatives 72 crisped 70 mighty 69 hit 68 poinant 67 wanton 60 pithy 59 emphatically 52 weightie 49 sultry 48 cuttingly 47 eloquentest 46 poynant 44 elocution 42 pithily 39 poignant 35 eloquence 35 incisive 35 animating 33 eloquentlie 33 emphatic 33 liveliness 32 animates 31 quick 29 picquant 28 abruptness 28 cogently 27 abruptnesse 26 waightie 26 lyuely 26 boldest 25 vivacity 23 sinewy 23 bould 23 liveliest 22 liuelie 21 vivification 18 vehemencies 18 grave 18 lapidary 18 piquant 18 waighty 17 weightiest 17 emphasis 16 wittie 16 over-strong 16 saltness 15 eloquenter 14 pithie 14 forcefull 13 living 12 lurid 12 eager 12 sensible 11 tuant 11 emphaticalness 11 liuelinesse 11 livelier 11 piquancy 11 tuant 10 livelinesse 10 toothd 10 sinewie
BK:06:e:06 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Weakness/feebleness
  4780 feeble 1753 bald 995 feble 370 feeblenesse 306 balde 269 weak 215 baldnesse 188 feebleness 161 toothlesse 137 baldness 122 blanched 103 bauld 101 soporiferous 88 toothless 84 weake 63 baldly 57 flagging 55 feable 53 vapid 40 poverty 35 scribled 35 insipid 33 slovenliness 20 plumbeous 20 weaker 17 sniveling 17 macilent 17 largely 16 blanch'd 15 jejunely 15 insipidness 13 corny 13 unspirited 12 tedious 12 pithless 12 balder 12 bare 11 slothfulness 10 narcotical 10 languid 10 weary
BK:06:e:07 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Plainness
  38404 plainly 10177 plainely 2730 playnly 1898 playnely 1810 plain 1666 plain 1312 plaine 1089 simply 1062 plainness 1044 simple 980 directly 854 plainlie 723 plaine 592 russet 533 plainnesse 490 plainelie 476 playne 431 nakedly 197 sanctimony 194 platly 190 plainenesse 184 playnelye 183 plainlye 172 playnlye 171 playne 155 literal 127 pleynly 124 plainnes 120 planely 112 literally 108 literall 92 plainesse 84 simplie 78 plainer 67 plainest 64 plainess 50 nature 47 playn 38 simplest 36 bare 35 platly 35 naked 33 point-blank 31 roundly 28 direct 28 in 25 symple 23 unadorned 22 unadorn'd 22 playn 21 round 19 point-blank 16 symply 15 rural 13 dryly 12 sanctitude 12 simplicity 12 rurall 11 meanest 11 unaffected 11 parrhesia 11 chasten 11 round 10 litterally 10 nakedness
BK:06:e:08 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Ornateness
  32229 precious 8320 pretious 4007 lofty 1989 insolencies 1768 insolency 1391 gorgeous 1255 flores 1206 loftie 1129 conceit 1009 precyous 807 flores 756 flowry 541 stately 437 taffata 406 gorgious 367 sublimity 355 preciouse 332 gorgeously 330 puffing 314 conceits 290 forsooth 274 flowrie 253 pompous 247 statelinesse 226 ornate 222 loftinesse 220 magnific 218 preciousness 210 embellished 208 laboured 206 embellish 206 rhetorically 204 loftily 183 thundring 176 superb 170 rhetorical 167 loftiness 162 ranting 161 flow'ry 154 taffaty 150 turgid 150 bombast 145 flowery 139 tympany 132 thundering 129 stateliness 129 tumid 127 purple 127 loftiest 125 embellishments 113 laborious 112 fleshy 108 embellish'd 106 labour'd 105 taffeta 102 sublimely 100 taffety 100 bumbast 99 stalking 93 imbellished 86 imbellish 86 thunderings 82 dropsical 81 sublimitie 80 rotundity 80 loftier 78 taffatie 74 intumescence 69 rhetorick 67 tragical 66 preciousest 63 embellishment 63 loftye 61 high-borne 60 statelines 58 rhetoricall 56 embellishing 55 magnifical 54 ranted 53 ranting 49 embelished 46 over-high 46 turgent 44 quoted 44 gaynesse 43 imbellishments 39 bloomy 38 flourish'd 38 embelish 36 conceite 34 sublimities 31 taffetie 31 tumefied 27 tragick 25 pedantical 24 labored 24 sublimeness 24 gayness 24 imbellishment 23 rhetorications 21 imbellish'd 21 embelish'd 21 floridly 21 gorgeouslie 20 heroicks 19 bombasted 19 embelishments 17 floridness 17 conceipts 17 gouty 17 pompousness 16 forsoth 16 turgency 16 tympanies 16 embellishes 15 colourable 15 thundring 14 herodian 14 thund'ring 14 lusciousness 14 rhetoric 14 taffetas 13 rantings 13 puffy 12 tragicke 12 conceyte 12 high-sounding 12 rhetoricate 11 flourishing 11 latinized 11 mouthing 11 flowers 11 swelling 11 thundering 11 ranting 10 swellingly 10 gorgeouslye 10 rhetorication
BK:06:e:09 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Elegance
  3361 aptly 1345 airy 1092 decorum 1011 elegancy 668 polite 547 apt 534 rhetorician 474 facetious 463 fluid 382 aery 339 ayrie 336 elegant 310 smug 288 rhetoricians 276 fine 275 elegancies 252 refined 248 felicity 236 cleanly 232 refiner 224 airie 218 elegantly 207 filed 174 neat 160 ayry 149 rhetor 147 fluently 146 refiners 136 fluency 135 aptlie 133 refine 132 elaborate 131 ciceronian 119 neatly 116 filde 115 ayery 112 lusty 109 felicitie 106 roundly 96 luculenter 94 correctly 79 terse 78 fluent 78 politeness 75 unforced 74 elegance 70 aptlye 69 unstudied 69 refin'd 65 luculent 64 fyne 63 refin'd 63 well-chosen 60 refined 58 neatness 58 politer 55 politely 53 refining 47 correct 45 silken 45 lambent 39 grace 38 facility 38 felicities 37 fluidity 36 melody 35 neate 34 facund 30 exquisite 28 cleanlier 27 decorums 26 lustie 26 urbane 23 neatest 19 cleanely 19 apte 17 festivity 17 festivities 16 smugge 16 politest 15 apter 15 aptest 15 round 15 neater 14 cleanliest 14 airiness 13 well-worded 13 renable 13 refines 13 facundity 13 facundious 12 rhetors 12 fluencie 12 profluence 11 current 11 facile 11 flow 11 ciceronian 11 smooth-tongued 11 mellifluous 11 filed
BK:06:e:10 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Inelegance
  16848 barbarous 983 barbarity 897 ponderous 738 barbarisme 545 barbarism 497 manner 416 harsh 388 affected 375 botches 368 botch 295 barbarities 270 asperity 239 forced 220 lownesse 217 lowness 216 affectation 193 disjoynted 137 barbarus 136 disjointed 131 unpolished 126 pondrous 125 barbarousness 119 ponderosity 109 pond'rous 108 asperities 91 barbarisms 91 crudely 76 asperitie 67 gross 64 forc'd 63 barberous 62 botche 53 affection 43 mannered 41 ponderousness 40 rude 40 grosse 38 manner'd 38 affections 36 ramble 35 uncorrect 34 uncouthness 32 rustically 31 uncouth 27 uneven 27 broadness 25 maner 20 affectations 20 harsher 18 manners 17 crabbed 16 constrained 16 incorrect 16 uneloquent 14 incondite 14 babarous 14 grossest 14 affectedly 14 crabbedly 13 unelegantly 12 grosser 12 checky 12 loose 10 scabrous 10 truculent 10 incuriosity 10 beggarliness
BK:06:e:11 Leisure: Literature: Style of language/writing: Figure of speech
  4667 simile 3364 metaphor 2969 figured 2736 penitent 2088 figurative 1541 similes 1490 metaphorically 1476 metaphorical 1463 metaphors 1297 penitents 1115 figuratively 1068 parenthesis 1042 antithesis 991 figuratiue 979 abode 932 scorners 913 emphatically 774 synecdoche 733 figure 654 metaphoricall 631 dissimilitude 616 figuratiuely 584 scorner 475 allegorically 450 hyperbole 441 figur'd 375 apostrophe 341 similies 341 metonymy 331 imagery 323 analogically 319 metonymically 314 figuring 240 tropes 222 synecdochically 213 figures 202 similitude 201 hyperboles 188 dissimiles 185 likeness 177 emphatical 170 trespassers 169 similie 167 trespasser 157 imagerie 153 likenesse 145 resemblance 137 epiphonema 136 occupatio 134 allegorical 129 hyperbolical 123 adversative 119 ironical 115 allegory 115 eclipsis 108 antitheses 105 trope 100 ironicall 96 allegorize 95 exclamation 91 propounder 89 parabolically 85 hyperbolically 83 antiphrasis 81 allegories 78 metaphoric 78 dissimilitudes 77 parentheses 73 semblables 71 exclamations 63 allegorized 62 decussation 62 similitudes 62 prosopopoeia 62 metalepsis 61 aposiopesis 60 propounders 59 fygured 58 dissimile 57 likenes 55 aversion 55 allegorizing 53 ellipsis 52 zeugma 50 trope 50 enumeration 49 metonymical 48 kenning 47 dissimile 47 tropes 45 allegoricall 45 gemination 42 gradation 40 figuration 40 metonymies 38 aboad 37 apostrophes 36 hypallage 35 obsecrations 35 analogic 34 expedition 34 resemblances 34 irony 33 occupatios 33 tropological 30 chronography 30 reddition 29 anadiplosis 28 epanalepsis 28 hyperbaton 27 obsecration 27 metonymic 27 fygure 26 anagogical 26 prolepsis 25 lykenesse 24 parabole 24 expolition 24 trespassors 23 antanaclasis 23 allegorie 22 allegorists 22 likening 22 rencounters 22 syllepsis 21 epizeuxis 21 similizing 20 synecdochic 20 rencounter 19 penitente 19 comparison 19 ironically 19 similize 18 tropically 18 epanorthosis 18 ecphonesis 18 analogous 18 preuention 18 likenesses 17 imageries 17 prevention 16 retractation 16 synecdochical 16 anaphora 16 tmesis 15 adversatively 15 catachresis 15 auxesis 15 antonomasia 15 sermocination 15 interrogation 15 hysterosis 15 metonym 14 allegorizing 14 aboade 14 anagogically 14 allegorizes 13 decussated 13 apophasis 13 climax 13 epistrophe 13 parembole 13 iconism 12 litotes 12 lykenes 12 parison 12 expolitio 12 aporia 12 asyndeton 12 similitudinary 11 parabolical 11 erotesis 11 tapinosis 11 anastrophe 11 hypallage 10 epistrophe 10 tropologically 10 morally 10 polyptoton 10 redoubling 10 intellection 10 fimile 10 tropical 10 antimetabole