profuseness

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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 Farquhar, George

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

Minuteness of finish and perfection of detail were lavished with Oriental profuseness.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The distance from Colombo is less than two hundred miles through the Straits of Manar, and we landed on the following day, after a stormy passage, during which the rain came down with tropical profuseness.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Its illustrations, which are given with great profuseness, are engraved in the highest style of art, and, in most cases, from designs made expressly for "The Nursery," by the best American artists.

From The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various