floridness

This point can hardly be more fully intelligible; but let readers note the difference between a healthy floridness of face, and the fiery redness of drunkards, debauchees, meat-eaters, etc.

He was a large man, with big hands and feet, and for a Mexican he had a mongrel floridness of skin.

The nave, the choir and chevet, and chapels, are all of a bareness which only exaggerates the floridness of these other appendages.

In oratory, notwithstanding a tendency to more than Milesian floridness and hyperbole, they have taken no mean stand among the free nations of christendom.

The inside of the church is in singular contrast to the floridness of the outside.