profuseness
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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
There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
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 Alf Burnett
Of all the follies in human life, there is none greater than that of extravagance, or profuseness; it being constant labour, without the least ease or relaxation.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
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
