profusive
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Ask G——s, or F—tc—t, to correct your Plan, They'll freely, where you err, instruct the Man, In what's amiss, with Judgment, and with Care, Where needful add; and where profusive; spare.
From The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry by Anonymous
To them you will always be the little boy who forgot to write profusive thanks for the half-a-crown they gave you when you first went to school.
From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by Richard King
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