profuseness

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A little Seat, a Neatness will require: A Palace claims a more majestick Fire, That made for Decency; for Grandeur this, And even Profuseness, may be not amiss.

From The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry by Anonymous

Profuseness on the part of the debtor will generally be found to beget confidence on that of the creditor; and, in like manner, diffidence will create mistrust, and mistrust an entire overthrow of the scheme.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 by Various

The Palace, and the Villa differ wide, For both, a proper Ornament provide, Perhaps in this, you must Profuseness spare; When that; requires you to be lavish there.

From The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry by Anonymous