floridness

Example Sentences

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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.

It was in accordance with his floridness that he always retained the gold band about his cigar while he smoked it.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

The old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.

From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar

Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark