profuseness
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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
The profuseness must be measured by the condition of the individual.
From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen
There is profuseness in the promise, there is a niggardly stinginess in the performance.
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
In Little Dorrit we have the old profuseness of characters; in the first half nearly one hundred, and in the second half there are practically no new characters at all.
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
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 George Farquhar
