profuseness
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Hopeful, but solitary; thou art made to bless generations by the profuseness of thy wealth.
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
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
Lady L. You gentlemen have the cunningest ways of playing the fool, and are so industrious in your profuseness.
From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by George Farquhar
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
His profuseness, however, had been mingled with a continuous astonishment, a brutish wonder which was quite inexplicable to Elizabeth.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
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