profuseness

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Such scenes were of frequent occurrence among the aborigines, surrounded by a climate which was nearly perfect, and by a profuseness and bounty of vegetation that made the support of life a mere holiday existence.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

In Little Dorrit we have the old profuseness of characters; in the first half nearly one hundred, and in the second half there are practically no new characters at all. 

From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson

There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

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

And she commenced to experience, too, the greatest difficulty in restraining a dewy profuseness that would arise and cloud her sight.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest