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lOE Canterbury Psalter xlviii. 7 Qui confidunt in virtute sua quique in abundantia diviciarum suarum gloriabuntur : ðæ þe getriwæð on megene heora witoþlice on genihtsummunga uel fulsumnesse [eOE Vespasian Psalter in genyhtsumnisse] welegioð wuldriende.

a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 95 Y seyde in my fulsumnesse [L. in abundantia mea].

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 397 The knotte, why, that euery tale is told If it be taryed til þ^t lust be cold..The sauour passeth euer lenger the moore ffor fulsomnesse of his prolixitee.

?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 641 Bachus shewed there his ffulsomnesse Off holsome wynes to euery manere wiht.

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 9528 Of wych ioye kyng dauyd þus seyde expresse: ‘I, lord, wyth þi fulsumnesse sacyat shal be’.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte l. 128 (MED) The wellys..bringe Al plente and habondaunce And fulsomnesse of al plesaunce.

1902 Age of Steel 23 Aug. 14/2 There will be more stringency than fullsomeness In supplies.

1995 B. Lang Mind's Bodies 137 The vision of natural plenitude, nature's fulsomeness.

1998 A. Martin Bilton xxii. 214 His tie knot was back to its pre-war fulsomeness.

2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 May 18 He can spot the bulging fulsomeness of a plant from the thicket in which it nestles.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 99 (MED) Ipocras, forsoþ, commandeþ for to louse by þe 3a. day if þer be bred vn to þe, wiþholden particule fastidie, i. loþing or fulsomnez [?c1425 Paris irksomnesse; L. fastidium] or echyng or yuel transpiracions.

c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 334 (MED) Þine absence bringeþ in to me hatynge of þe place, fulsumnesse of þe celle, & despysynge of breþerne dwellynge with me.

1481 (a1470) J. Tiptoft tr. Cicero De Amicicia (Caxton) sig. c3 Ther is not suche fulsomnesse in frendship, as ther is in other thynges, ffor frendship fareth as wine, which may be kepte many yeres.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions 156 a The body lacking exercise, gathereth fulsomnes & pestilent sauours.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 191 Our soule hath a fulsomnesse at this slight meat.

1612 J. Day Davids Desire 56 If I should say only thou shalt be satisfied, then mightst thou on the contrary feare there should be some fulsomnes.

1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 20 Quickned and actuated..(as the fulsomnesse of sugar is by the acrimony of Lemons).

1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 979 A strong sort of Tobacco, in which the Smoakers say they can plainly taste the fulsomness of the Dung.

1781 J. Andrews Two Addit. Lett. 38 Should we discuss these points, now become trite and tedious, through the frequency and fulsomeness of the investigations they have undergone?

1854 U.S. Mag. 15 May 15/2 Salt pork is cheap—that is, greasy fulsomeness makes it pall sooner on the appetite than any other meat.

1876 R. C. Trench Synonyms New Test. lxi. 219 By ‘fulsomeness’ is indicated the disgust and loathing from over-fulness of meat as well as of wine.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Aaa.ii^v All these abominations, they..haue clensed and purged the Churches of Englande of, takynge away all suche fulsomnes and fylthynesse.

1610 D. Price Creation of Prince sig. Bj^v Others haue described them by some diseases, to manifest the fulsomness and loathsomnesse thereof.

1641 J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 224 How long shall thy servants nauseate at the fulsomenesse of their pride?

1699 Country Gentleman's Vade-mecum xv. 106 The Fulsomness of the Vice it self, and the hateful and, loathsome Qualifications that are incorporated with it.

1684 G. Tullie tr. Plutarch How to know Flatterer from Friend in M. Morgan et al. tr. Plutarch Morals II. iv. 10 Lest the Fulsomeness of repeated Dissimulation should pall and cloy the Company.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxvi No Decency is consider'd, no fulsomness omitted.

1770 Oxf. Mag. June 213/1 Mr. Sheriff Sawbridge spoke very well against the fulsomeness and flattery of most Addresses.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. lviii. 470 Rather a proof of the bad taste in pulpit oratory prevailing..than of any peculiar servility or fulsomeness.

1881 Times 13 Mar. 9/3 Adulation became an art, and was carried to a pitch of fulsomeness beyond modern conception.

1916 P. Grainger Let. 12 Feb. in All-round Man (1994) 20 His English embarrassment at the fulsomeness of Canadian praise.

1940 Crisis Jan. 28/2 While the sketches are not critical, they do not..err on the side of fulsomeness.

1993 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 70/1 The fulsomeness of the writing and the floridity are meant to show the more sensitive girl-side of his nature.

2013 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 30 July This man was a nobody a decade ago but today has developed disciples through his fulsomeness and flattering words.