fulsomeness

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Aside from the fulsomeness of the introductory language, there does not seem to be much opportunity for comedy here.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

When the Imperial government was established the old regicide made himself conspicuous even among the crowd of flatterers by the peculiar fulsomeness of his adulation.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

My awareness of the obvious fulsomeness in the old woman's praise in no way detracted from my feeling of having done a good deed.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

If this were flattery, tone and manner robbed it of fulsomeness, rendered it subtle beyond the coarser perceptions of the man.

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph