floridness

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Frau Lichtenfeld shone in a gown of emerald green, fitting so closely as to enhance her natural floridness.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert

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

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

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.

Vasilisa Vasena came every morning at seven o'clock; she was a country-woman of about thirty seven, strong, healthy, red-faced, reminiscent of a July day in her floridness and vigorous health.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master.

From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville