floridness

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Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

The inside of the church is in singular contrast to the floridness of the outside.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

It was well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.

From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar