profuseness

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All these indicate an ease and profuseness of living which little accord with our notions of the word "peasant".

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort

My dear friends, girls—modest, rosy, bright-eyed school-girls, such as you are a-thinking of—are scarce as hen's teeth in this great city, and not to be found in profuseness anywhere.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

To a Northerner, accustomed to see so much enrichment expended upon the soil to force from it an annual return, this profuseness of unstimulated yield is a surprise.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

When these have wealth their hospitality is too apt to take the place of a spendthrift profuseness, ending in pecuniary embarrassment.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

And the profuseness with which he has illustrated his narrative with military plans, with portraits of statesmen and commanders, and with sketches of celebrated localities, gives great interest and value to these pages.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by