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Definition of Lavishing
1. lavish [v] - See also: lavish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavishing
Literary usage of Lavishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts, including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"... Patronage of his Countrymen—His undeserved Reputation for Liberality —
Anecdotes — The King's Taste for lavishing immense Sums on Court Masques—Reduced ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"... and rule their hearts and lives, instead of wandering from chapel to chapel,
lavishing their substance on robes to the Virgin and St. Lucy, ..."
3. The Gate of Death: A Diary by Arthur Christopher Benson (1906)
"There seems a mighty spirit abroad ; not the prodigal spirit of summer, lavishing
life and bloom, but a stronger, sterner spirit, graver, too, and sweeter, ..."
4. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"Englishmen who are asked to admire this dish, which French cooks elaborate with
extraordinary care, lavishing immense ingenuity on the Chartreuse of ..."
5. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"Most of our great men are of a character that I find it impossible to warm into
life by thought, or by lavishing any amount of sympathy upon them. ..."
6. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"... great men are of a character that I find it impossible to warm into life by
thought, or by lavishing any amount of sympathy upon them. ..."
7. A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Nathan Bangs (1857)
"... the people ought to be warned against lavishing any more into their hands, to
accuse us of accumulating funds dangerous to the state ? ..."
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