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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And the profuseness with which he has illustrated his narrative with military plans, with portraits of statesmen and commanders, and with sketches of celebrated localities, gives great interest and value to these pages.”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
In Little Dorrit we have the old profuseness of characters; in the first half nearly one hundred, and in the second half there are practically no new characters at all.
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
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
Lady L. You gentlemen have the cunningest ways of playing the fool, and are so industrious in your profuseness.
From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by George Farquhar
