profuseness

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To eyes unused to the profuseness of living that then prevailed on the best class of Western steamboats, the display on the dining-tables of the “New Lucy” was very grand indeed.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

It may not seem credible, yet parsimony appears in the midst of their profuseness: but then it is very ill placed, for it is in crumbs, bones, and crusts.

From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

The culprit had a little log hut on the banks of the Guyandotte River, and was dealing it out with a profuseness entirely unwarranted.

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf

His profuseness, however, had been mingled with a continuous astonishment, a brutish wonder which was quite inexplicable to Elizabeth.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

Arthur Young, "an agriculturist," as he has been rather contemptuously called, a century or more ago wrote of rural France after a manner, and with a profuseness, which few have since equalled.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)