Adjective : profuse praise. ,profuse apologies. From Dictionary.com.
The vegetation is there, glorious in its profuseness and healthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
Luxuriant vegetation spread in wild profuseness over this prodigal soil. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
Republic puts everywhere, with lavish profuseness, at the service even of its least promising populations. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference
The Madani are, like the Meccans, a curious mixture of generosity and meanness, of profuseness and penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Why such a profuseness then in your courtesies and smiles and flowers and gifts and kisses, and why such a lack of them now?. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Nay even those law-givers that chiefly opposed luxury and profuseness have particularly confined marriage feasts to a set number. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism -- high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The word liberal, in its modern sense, means profuseness to needy adventurers, and idle friends; indifference to the nearest and dearest ties, originate in this misapplied term. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
Its most important feature is the profuseness of quotation from the. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
The profuseness must be measured by the condition of the individual. From Wordnik.com. [What a Young Woman Ought to Know] Reference
The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
The vegetation is remarkable for its profuseness and almost tropical luxuriance. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
He did not invariably scorn or even resent a certain profuseness of expenditure. From Wordnik.com. [The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition] Reference
The profuseness of quotation in Polycarp's Epistle arises from a want of originality. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
Minuteness of finish and perfection of detail were lavished with Oriental profuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
Shakespeare has been sometimes taxed with the barbarism of profuseness and exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
The profuseness of quotations in Polycarp's Epistle arises from a want of originality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Vitel'lius soon gave himself up to all kinds of luxury and profuseness; but gluttony was his favourite vice. From Wordnik.com. [Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.] Reference
Ah Menedemus! you are too precipitate in either extreme, either with profuseness or with parsimony too great. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes] Reference
I have little doubt our songsters excel in melody, while the European birds excel in profuseness and volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
All these indicate an ease and profuseness of living which little accord with our notions of the word "peasant". From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
In his attachment to women, he displayed a profuseness which not unusually characterizes the excess of the passion. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 1] Reference
"Kotched yer, are we?" said the former, with a deplorable profuseness of unnecessary verbiage, as he jumped on board. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
He is immensely rich, and he loves riches; but he likes to spend as well as get money; and that with almost profuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference
The evaporation from the surface is so rapid that one can hardly appreciate the profuseness of the perspiration going on. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
But when I saw that by his incredible dilapidations and profuseness, my son, who might have been the richest gentleman in. From Wordnik.com. [Royalty Restored] Reference
There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses. From Wordnik.com. [Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco] Reference
The rumor of this extravagant profuseness delighted the hearts of all the shopkeepers in Paris; from the hotel of the Duke of. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years Later] Reference
Thus nature has made up for the deficiency of one tribe of animals by the profuseness with which she has distributed another. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
Its flora is spontaneous and magnificent, repaying the least attention by a development and profuseness of yield that is surprising. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
When these have wealth their hospitality is too apt to take the place of a spendthrift profuseness, ending in pecuniary embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
It is not only well watered, but well timbered, and produces all the vegetables, fruits, and grasses indigenous to the country, with astonishing profuseness. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
The effect upon Edwin was one of immense and careless prodigality; it intoxicated him; it made him feel that a grand profuseness was the finest thing in life. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
He could not but be struck with the beauty of the nymphs, he could not but be surprised with the profuseness of the entertainment, and the richness of the preparations. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] Reference
The profuseness and rather grotesque character of the carvings suggested the ruins of Mexico and Yucatan, and the enormous size of the blocks of stone, those of Peru and Baalbec. From Wordnik.com. [When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot] Reference
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