profusion

IPA: prʌfjˈuʒʌn

noun

  • abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
  • lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
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Examples of "profusion" in Sentences

  • The guard said, in profusion of the class-struggle snetiment.
  • My neighbour has some elderflowers growing in profusion in the back garden.
  • They blossom in profusion by the creek near here a week or so before Mothers 'Day.
  • Not so very far from here the smaller, traditional, wild daffodils, the kind that inspired Wordsworth and Housman, grow in profusion in woods and by roadsides.
  • [T] he insults, the blows, the murders which flow in such awful profusion from the intemperance of husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, fall with heaviest, most crushing force upon woman.
  • There he began writing polemical articles “in profusion,” the biographer Richard Wightman Fox reports, in part to support his mother, who lived with him, and a spendthrift older brother.
  • Incidentally, the village's name, Tupátaro, means "place of reeds or bulrushes", plants that still thrive in profusion today on the shores of nearby Lake Patzcuaro and are widely used in making modern handicrafts.

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