rampancy
Example Sentences
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Due to the rampancy of social media, influencers and celebrity culture, ours is arguably the most parasocial age in human history.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023
Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-expos� trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was settling down to what he had made himself; no virtue could claim a share in the diminished rampancy of his vices.
From There & Back by MacDonald, George
To humour him, however, it might be advisable to depict him wherever he wishes in that state of rampancy which he chooses to figure in, that is, in an attitude of rampant absurdity.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
In a country where there is practically no such class as that represented in Europe by the peasantry, the rampancy of such a belief is a phenomenon deserving close and curious study.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt
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