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adj. - Produced or growing in extreme abundance.

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  • Churches became more profuse in decoration, better lit and more lavish in their proportions.
  • 'How thoroughly am I converted to the love of Jean Paul, and wonder at the indolence or shallowness which could resist so long, and call his profuse riches want of system!
  • 32 The greater part of the nobles, who dissipated their fortunes in profuse luxury, found themselves poor in the midst of wealth, and idle in a constant round of...
  • Here they may produce an inflammation of the lining of the womb, causing severe pain and other symptoms, such as profuse discharge.
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