Adjective : copious amounts of food. ,a copious larder; a copious harvest. From Dictionary.com.
English) the copiousness is somewhat painful to readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The copiousness of the fluid has the opposite result. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
It is the only way to give to a language copiousness and euphony. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
That's funny in itself./lipbr/plib I have copiousness of womanlike friends. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
All this took place upon a landscape covered with copiousness of ice and snow. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Such must be his comprehension of thought, and such his copiousness of language. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
When we examine the vocabulary of Shakespeare, what first strikes us is its copiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
But to speak with dignity and elegance and copiousness is a characteristic of Attic orators. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
All the same, it's hard not to warm tothe fluency and copiousness of Mitchell's yarn-spinning. From Wordnik.com. [Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers] Reference
He had a light to all its copiousness, and the other party should have allowed him full enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
It can usually be me as great as Chris, the small decent choon-age as great as copiousness of beer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
One very curious example of Ibsen's minute care is found in the copiousness of his stage directions. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
Its copiousness, however, does not proceed, like that of the English, from borrowing from other languages. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
There are examples of these — copiousness in Thucydides, gracefulness in Lysias, restraint in Demosthenes. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Perfection and copiousness were much-discussed properties with which to place languages in the scheme of things. From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
The copiousness of diction, elegance of phrase, the power of expressing himself in graceful strength were eminently his. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
Nature itself cannot err: and as men abound in copiousness of language; so they become more wise, or more mad, than ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
But even on these subjects he was dry, and indisposed to answer with the full copiousness of free communication which she desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
This plan of biography is, however, by no means that of Mr. Masson: he has no dread of overgrown bulk and overwhelming copiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
If that statement seems excessive, wait till you see the copiousness of the production -- it's just one damned wonder after another. From Wordnik.com. [Diamonds Amid the Dross] Reference
Their very language ... in variety, in simplicity, in flexibility, and in copiousness, excels every other language of the western world. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He is a child in sensibility, while a youth in the vividness, and a man in the grasp, the piercingness and the copiousness of his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
It combines in a remarkable degree the copiousness of a Thesaurus with the brevity and convenience for ready reference of a school-dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
There is no copiousness of literary reference in his work, such as over-abounded in the civil and ecclesiastical publicists of the 17th century. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The copiousness of its increase was, even to our accustomed eyes, remarkable in the extreme, but the reason was discovered with comparative ease. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
He will be expected to congratulate them on the elegance of their manners, the copiousness of their literature, and the refinement of their tastes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Guests were ever welcome at his board; the opulence of his mind and the fervid copiousness of his talk naturally made the guests of such a man very numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
We make no apology for the copiousness of the extracts which we are now to make, and which, we think, will sufficiently explain themselves without much commentary from us. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
This part is richly studded with blunders of every description, and written in language which for copiousness and clearness rivals the fertilizing inundations of the Nile. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
They greeted her with a deplorable copiousness of tact. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
It will win you credit for copiousness, if you start with the. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
But if Pindar had been described as writing with the copiousness and grandeur of Homer, or. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
Whatever be the faults of his diction, he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Unable, himself, to compose a poem of epic length and copiousness, he discouraged all long poems. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
I did not entirely abjure the creed which had, with great copiousness and eloquence, been defended in these letters. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
But even my friend's rare dialectic skill and copiousness of apt illustration could not drive me from my agnostic position. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
But even on these subjects he was dry, and in-disposed to answer with the full copiousness of free communication which she desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
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