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profuseness|prəʊˈfjuːsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being profuse; lavishness; wastefulness; profusion.
1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 400 There be two grand enemies of hospitality. The one is covetousness, the other profuseness. 1632Massinger City Madam iii. ii, I, That knew profuseness of expense the parent Of wretched Poverty, her fatal daughter. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 27 ⁋7, I was convinced that their liberality was only profuseness, that..they were equally generous to vice and virtue. 1850Florist Mar. 81 Its distinctness and profuseness of bloom combine to make it a very desirable thing. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. xi. 631 In no age have literary men been rewarded with such profuseness as in the reign of Louis XIV.; and in no age have they been so mean spirited.
b. With a and pl. An act of profuse expenditure.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xix. (1674) 20 One of those inconsiderate profusenesses used by shallow-pated Princes. |