fulsomeness
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Aside from the fulsomeness of the introductory language, there does not seem to be much opportunity for comedy here.
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The Marchioness welcomed him cordially, later on, and Mr. Dane Montague and Mr. Hartwell seemed very harmless in their ill-chosen country clothes, and ingratiating almost to the point of fulsomeness.
From Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Capital berated Bonbright; labor was inclined to fulsomeness.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
When the Imperial government was established the old regicide made himself conspicuous even among the crowd of flatterers by the peculiar fulsomeness of his adulation.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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