英和和英

読み方 もんごん

名詞

The wording, the effect （of any writing）

用例

• 遺言書の文言が不明だ
  The will is obscurely worded.

• 請願書の文書が不穏だ
  The petition is couched in unfitting terms―couched in insolent terms.
• 手紙の文言はこうである
  The letter runs as follows―reads as follows:―
• 用があつて来られないという文言であった
  It was to the effect that business prevented his coming.
• 仰々しい
  pompous diction―sounding rhetoric