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Profuseness

noun
1.
The property of being extremely abundant.  Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness.  "The idiomatic richness of English"





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"Profuseness" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the profuseness of quotation from the Apostolic writings. Of a Canon of the New Testament, strictly so called, it is not probable that Polycarp knew anything [93:4]. This idea was necessarily, as Dr Westcott has shown, the growth of time. But of the writings which are included in our Canon he shows a wide ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... It is a childhood of Art, but a childhood of so huge a portent that its maturity may well call out an expectation of awe. In all its characteristics it is childlike,—in its intensity, its humility, its untutored expressiveness, its marvellous instincts of truth, and in its very profuseness of giving,—filling its caskets with an unchoosing lavishness of pearl and pebble, rose and may-weed, all treasures alike to its newly opened eyes, all so beautiful that there can scarcely be ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various


Words linked to "Profuseness" :   abundance, greenness, overgrowth, copiousness, teemingness, profuse, wilderness, verdancy, verdure


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