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exuberance|ɛgˈzjuːbərəns|
[a. F. exubérance, ad. L. exūberantia, n. of state f. exūberāre: see exuberant and -ance.]
1. The quality or condition of being exuberant; abundant productiveness; luxuriance of growth; overflowing fullness (of joy, health, etc.).
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 192 Repress the common Exuberance of the leading and middle shoots. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 118 The primitive Exuberance of the Earth was lessen'd. 1823Scott Quentin D. ii, A happy exuberance of animal spirits. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 557 A sweet guileless child, playing in the exuberance of its happiness. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 58 Nothing is wanting..to attest the exuberance of its author's genius.
b. Copiousness or redundance of expression.
1717Garth tr. Ovid's Met. Pref., In his similes that exuberance is avoided. 1758Johnson Idler No. 36 ⁋6 The man of exuberance and copiousness. 1847Grote Greece (1862) III. xxix. 69 His exuberance astonishes us.
†c. A fault or error of excess. Obs.
1749Fielding Tom Jones iii. v, That the different exuberances of these gentlemen, would correct their different imperfections. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 30 Allowing me in my exuberance one way, for my deficiencies in the other.
d. An extravagance, excessive outburst.
1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 619 His generous impulses burst into the wild exuberances of the reveries of astrology. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 121 The criticism on his own doctrine..has..been considered..an exuberance of the metaphysical imagination.
2. An overflowing amount or quantity; a superabundance.
1638W. R[awley] tr. Bacon's Life & Death 373 Fatnesse is..an Exuberance of Nourishment, above that which is voyded by Excrement. 1768W. Gilpin Ess. Prints 90 There is an exuberance of fancy in him. 1786― Mts. & Lakes I. 137 An exuberance of water. 1868E. P. Wright Ocean World iii. 65 An exuberance of life of which no other portion of the globe could give us any idea.
†b. ellipt. An abundance of good things, plenty. Obs.
1675Cocker Morals 37 Exuberance is turn'd to Indigence. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 105 ⁋11 Many had great exuberance, and few confessed any want.
†3. concr. An overflow; a luxuriant outgrowth; an excrescence, protuberance. Obs.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 120 Sulphur, or other like exuberances of Nature. 1687J. Clayton Virginia in Phil. Trans. XLI. 149 Punk..the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak. 1781Johnson Lett. Mrs. Thrale 14 Apr., Kindness must be commonly the exuberance of content. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. i. 89 They [the rocks] appear..smooth, and their exuberances rounded off. |