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Profuseness

noun
1.
The property of being extremely abundant.  Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness.  "The idiomatic richness of English"





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"Profuseness" Quotes from Famous Books



... gives us a true picture of this habit in his scene with Mr. Padusoy, the mercer, a mode which has been found to succeed so well since his time, that, with the exception of a few short-cuts by sharpers and other proscribed gentry, little amendment has been made. Profuseness on the part of the debtor will generally be found to beget confidence on that of the creditor; and, in like manner, diffidence will create mistrust, and mistrust an entire overthrow of the scheme. An unblushing front, and ...
— Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276 - Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 • Various
... inherited but little; and that his generosity, more than his profuseness, has stripped him of; but he has never sullied his honour, which, with his title, has ...
— The Duenna • Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Words linked to "Profuseness" :   abundance, cornucopia, verdancy, teemingness, copiousness, profuse, wilderness, verdure, overgrowth, greenness


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