"battology" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1856, Henry Sutherland Edwards, Louis de Lom̂aenie, de Louis Léonard Loménie, Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century, page 278:",
          "text": "Logomachy, battology, jingling of words, are all these fine speeches!",
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          "text": "This sonorous balance of phrase and epithet cannot always escape what Milton himself calls \"the heathenish battology of multiplying words.\"",
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          "text": "Thus he objected to the battology of the Nicene Creed, 'God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,' because, he said, it 'adds neither to the emphasis nor the expressiveness of the document.'",
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