profuseness

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Of all the follies in human life, there is none greater than that of extravagance, or profuseness; it being constant labour, without the least ease or relaxation.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

The profuseness and variety of beautiful ferns and orchidaceous plants will also be sure to attract the attention of the Northern visitor.

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

The profuseness must be measured by the condition of the individual.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary

Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

The doctor, unable to refuse, seated himself in the shaving-chair, trembling, half with fear and half with rage, and by this time quite unconscious of the lather which Nello had laid on with such profuseness.

From Romola by Eliot, George