profuseness
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The doctor, unable to refuse, seated himself in the shaving-chair, trembling, half with fear and half with rage, and by this time quite unconscious of the lather which Nello had laid on with such profuseness.
From Romola by George Eliot
Of all the follies in human life, there is none greater than that of extravagance, or profuseness; it being constant labour, without the least ease or relaxation.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
The effect upon Edwin was one of immense and careless prodigality; it intoxicated him; it made him feel that a grand profuseness was the finest thing in life.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
To a certain carelessness of riches he added a certain profuseness of expenditure; and indulgent towards his own pleasures, towards others, his equals or dependents, he bore himself with a spirit of kindness and magnanimity.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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