profuseness

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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

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

Its flora is spontaneous and magnificent, repaying the least attention by a development and profuseness of yield that is surprising.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Its illustrations, which are given with great profuseness, are engraved in the highest style of art, and, in most cases, from designs made expressly for "The Nursery," by the best American artists.

From The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

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