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ˈcopiousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Plentifulness; abundance.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 280 The grett wepyng Wych she dede usyn in copyousnesse. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. 118 There is plenty of fisshe..and copiousnes of woll and cloth. 1699Bentley Phal. Introd. 9 The Kings..rivalling one another in the Magnificence and Copiousness of their Libraries. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 194 ⁋8 This copiousness of ideas, and felicity of language. 1867Tristram in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxiii. 3 We had sensible proof..of the copiousness of the ‘dew of Hermon.’
2. Abundance of words; fullness of vocabulary.
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 53 In Cæsar and Cicero's times (whereof the one for purity, the other for copiousnesse, were the best that ever writ). 1741Middleton Cicero II. viii. 227 That force and copiousness which is required in a consummate Orator. 1827Whately Logic v. §10 The copiousness and consequent precision of the Greek language. 1850H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 217 The principal excellences of a language consist in copiousness, meaning by that word distinct expressions for distinct things, etc.
3. Fullness of treatment; diffuseness of style in speech or writing.
1699Burnet 39 Art. xxii. (1700) 253 It seemed necessary to explain these with a due Copiousness. 1764Harmer Observ. i. 2, I do not know that this has been done with anything of copiousness and particularity. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 234 He harangued on his favourite theme with a copiousness which tired his hearers out. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 276 We are inclined rather to regret his copiousness for his own sake than for ours. |