floridness
- a word derived from florid.
Example Sentences
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Frau Lichtenfeld shone in a gown of emerald green, fitting so closely as to enhance her natural floridness.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert
In oratory, notwithstanding a tendency to more than Milesian floridness and hyperbole, they have taken no mean stand among the free nations of christendom.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
It was in accordance with his floridness that he always retained the gold band about his cigar while he smoked it.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.
Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
