prolixlyadv.

a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1592) sig. A6^v I goe vpon a Theame which many haue trauersed before me prolixly, or cursorily, or barrenly.

1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. iii. xxvii. 311 All these things are remembered more largely and prolixely of me, that thou mayest vnderstand, that [etc.].

1632 H. Hawkins Hist. S. Elizabeth iii. v. 340 Shee would pray prolixly for diuers howers togeather with extraordinary deuotion and feeling, and not without great plenty of teares.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 76 On these prolixly thankfull, she enlarg'd.

1739 A. Pope Corr. 17 May (1956) IV. 176 You ask me the same Questions again which I prolixly have answer'd before.

1785 Daily Universal Reg. 13 Oct. 1/2 (advt.) Injudiciously or prolixly treated Accounts, ever so involved, reduced to propriety.

1802 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 784 I have written thus, and thus prolixly of myself, with far other feelings than those of Self-love, or of pleasure from the writing about myself.

1855 R. Browning Epist. Karshish 285 Thy pardon for this long and tedious case,..Unduly dwelt on, prolixly set forth!

1921 Mod. Lang. Notes 36 479 The poor parson, who is, with Chaucer's obvious connivance, a bore in the eyes of the host and the pilgrims, preaches prolixly, as he frowns upon mere entertainment.

1959 W. C. Havard Henry Sidgwick & Later Utilitarian Polit. Philos. ii. 52 In this branch of learning, as in the several others in which he engaged so prolixly, he must be accounted influential.

2004 Iowa City Press-Citizen (Nexis) 22 Aug. 11 a [He] described Davenport as a ‘crucially important Iowa town’ balancing the lesser connotation that ‘town’ carries by prolixly emphasizing its campaign significance.

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 74 Pursued prolixly, even the gentlest toil Is waste of health.