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

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

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

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

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 Reid, Mayne

“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 Reed, Talbot Baines