profuse
adjective
spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed byin ).
profuseness
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a word derived from
profuse.
Example Sentences
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The effect upon Edwin was one of immense and careless prodigality; it intoxicated him; it made him feel that a grand profuseness was the finest thing in life.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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 Maturin Murray Ballou
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 F.C. Tilney
Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism—high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament.
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 George Eliot
