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profuseness



NOUN
verbosity
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Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

And she commenced to experience, too, the greatest difficulty in restraining a dewy profuseness that would arise and cloud her sight.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

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 George Sumner Weaver

When these have wealth their hospitality is too apt to take the place of a spendthrift profuseness, ending in pecuniary embarrassment.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

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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