profuseness
Example Sentences
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With increased and increasing liabilities, there was more profuseness and greater recklessness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
And the profuseness with which he has illustrated his narrative with military plans, with portraits of statesmen and commanders, and with sketches of celebrated localities, gives great interest and value to these pages.”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
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
“Kotched yer, are we?” said the former, with a deplorable profuseness of unnecessary verbiage, as he jumped on board.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
