participialityn.
/ˌpɑːtᵻsɪpɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑrdəsɪpiˈælədi/ rare.
Participial nature. Also: habitual or excessive use of participials; an instance of this.
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1885 B. L. Gildersleeve Pindar ix. 111 A good specimen of Pindar's terse participiality.
1902 B. L. Gildersleeve in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 23 259 Nothing could be more exotic than Caxton's participialities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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