Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state, quality, or habit of being profuse; profusion; prodigality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extravagance; profusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
profuse ;profusion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being extremely abundant
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Examples
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The youth turned to him angrily and replied, “O packsaddle of an ass, it was the length of the way that hindered me from this and the steepness of the steps and the profuseness of my sweat.”
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This justifies the high providence of God, who, though he command us temperance, justice, continence, yet pours out before us, even to a profuseness, all desirable things, and gives us minds that can wander beyond all limit and satiety.
Areopagitica 2007
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And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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This justifies the high providence of God, who, though he command us temperance, justice, continence, yet pours out before us, even to a profuseness, all desirable things, and gives us minds that can wander beyond all limit and satiety.
Areopagitica 2007
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And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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From the wildest fantasy (which you did not + could not handle through lack of readiness + incisiveness of wit + profuseness of it and through other reasons like Hergeshiemeric tendency to take it easy doing still-lifes) you went (+ I was all for it) to the most complete realism, taking in passing the civil war.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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From the wildest fantasy (which you did not + could not handle through lack of readiness + incisiveness of wit + profuseness of it and through other reasons like Hergeshiemeric tendency to take it easy doing still-lifes) you went (+ I was all for it) to the most complete realism, taking in passing the civil war.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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