[ver.biage] n [F, fr. MF verbier to chatter, fr. verbe speech, fr. L verbum word] (ca. 1721) 1: a profusion of words usu. of little or obscure content "such a tangled maze of evasive ~ as a typical party platform --Marcia Davenport"
2: manner of expressing oneself in words: diction "sportswriters guarded their ~ so jealously --Raymond Sokolov"