profuseness

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Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism—high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

The culprit had a little log hut on the banks of the Guyandotte River, and was dealing it out with a profuseness entirely unwarranted.

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf

There is profuseness in the promise, there is a niggardly stinginess in the performance.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef

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

Arthur Young, "an agriculturist," as he has been rather contemptuously called, a century or more ago wrote of rural France after a manner, and with a profuseness, which few have since equalled.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)