floridness
Example Sentences
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His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville
The old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.
From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar
Vasilisa Vasena came every morning at seven o'clock; she was a country-woman of about thirty seven, strong, healthy, red-faced, reminiscent of a July day in her floridness and vigorous health.
From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris
Frau Lichtenfeld shone in a gown of emerald green, fitting so closely as to enhance her natural floridness.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert
Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
