floridness
Example Sentences
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In oratory, notwithstanding a tendency to more than Milesian floridness and hyperbole, they have taken no mean stand among the free nations of christendom.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 Edgar Jepson
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 Peter Mark Roget
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 Grenville Kleiser
