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Definition of Profuseness

1. Noun. The property of being extremely abundant. "The idiomatic richness of English"

Definition of Profuseness

1. n. Extravagance; profusion.

Definition of Profuseness

1. Noun. The quality of being profuse; profusion ¹

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Definition of Profuseness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profuseness

Literary usage of Profuseness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"profuseness of epithets ; profusion of praise. ... guishing profuseness does not so much dispense as throw away what he has, ..."

2. The Modern Practice of Physic: Exhibiting the Characters, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Thomas (1813)
"Applied to. the sore, it moderates the profuseness of the discharge, corrects the ... profuseness ..."

3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"In Hectic Fever, he also found it useful in diminishing, in a marked manner, the profuseness of the perspirations. 2407. SALICIS CORTEX. ..."

4. Good Old Dorchester: A Narrative History of the Town, 1630-1893 by William Dana Orcutt (1891)
"... and the children carried beautiful bouquets of flowers, which were scattered with liberal profuseness; the orator, president of the day, ..."

5. An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We by Edward Augustus Holyoke (1830)
"NEGLIGENCE, EXTRAVAGANCE, profuseness. One would not imagine that many Arguments were necessary to convince us, that these Habits naturally lead those who ..."

6. An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had by William Robertson (1835)
"The former flattered his vanity, which was great ; the latter supplied his profuseness, which was still greater. He abandoned himself without reserve to ..."

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