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sumptuosity|sʌm(p)tjuːˈɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. sumptuōsitās, f. sumptuōsus sumptuous. Cf. F. somptuosité, etc.]
Lavishness or extravagance of expenditure; magnificence or luxuriousness of living, equipment, decoration, or the like.
1559W. Bercher Nobylytye Wymen (Roxb.) 127 Simonides namyd a woman to be..the poyson of lyffe..the battell off Sumptuosytie, the beaste of ffamylyaritie. 1562J. Shute tr. Cambini's Turk. Wars 27 A certaine chapell whiche he had buylded with great sumptuositie. 1601Holland Pliny II. 584 No man ever after him was able to match that sumptuositie of his Theatre. 1653tr. Carmini's Nissena 155 The chief Commanders..being treated with such sumptuositie as belonged unto them. 1836New Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 461 This is displayed in an excess of sumptuosity and decoration. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxviii, He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. xvi, A dinner on the desired scale of sumptuosity cannot be achieved. 1891Farrar Darkness & Dawn ii. 241 It was called the Golden House, and exceeded in sumptuosity every thing which the world had hitherto seen.
b. An instance of this; a sumptuous thing.
1601Holland Pliny I. 168 To speake of his sumptuosities, of his largesses. 1652Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. 18 Alexander..found more Cities and sumptuosities in that little Kingdome of Porus..than in all his other travells. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. vi. 47 Turn away from their lackered sumptuosities. 1856T. A. Trollope Girlh. Cath. de Medici 56 These and other such sumptuosities of Rome. |