lavish
adjective
expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion.
lavishment
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a word derived from
lavish.
Example Sentences
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The overplus of men made them amenable to the commands of the women, who often dominated in permanent alliances, demanding lavishment of wealth and attention from their husbands.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Nature seemed incomprehensible, only because the near and the true loomed around man with such a manifold lavishment of expression.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
Does love then bring disgrace, and ruin, and dishonor upon the object of its lavishment?
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne
There can no advocate, no persuasive words, no false excuse, no mightiness of riches, no pomp of rank, no lavishment of bribes, avail to pervert righteous judgement.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
The pity of her worship grows, as the reader of his life, and hers, realizes how little return in demonstrative affection she received as the reward for her vast, and continuous lavishment of love.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
