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ˈsumptuousness
[f. sumptuous + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being sumptuous; costliness and magnificence of living, production, equipment, construction, or maintenance.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 67 The sumptuousnes of the women of Rome. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 13 The Turke..commaunded a greate nauie of shippes with greate sumptuousnes to bee furnished. 1573Bridges Suprem. Chr. Princes 479 Many carued Images..with great sumptuousnesse and coste, were sette vp. a1628F. Grevil Sidney (1652) 208 The sloth or sumptuousnesse of her great Steward, and white staves. 1676Row Contn. Blair's Autobiogr. xi. (1848) 335 There was most superfluous sumptuousness used at his burial. 1684Contempl. St. Man i. vi. (1699) 62 The sumptuousness of his Palaces. 1758Johnson Idler No. 99 ⁋5 He raised a house, equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. iv. 58 The royal progresses..were..pageants of no small sumptuousness. |