luxuriancyn.
/lʌkˈsjʊərɪənsi//lʌɡˈʒʊərɪənsi/ Now rare.
= luxuriance n.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness
richness1564
profuseness1584
prodigality1597
luxury?1611
luxuritya1636
luxuriancy1648
voluptuousness1652
luxuriance1728
luxuriation1839
lavishness1859
luxuriousness1872
overflowingness1883
lushness1900
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [noun] > flourishing state or greenness
verdour1447
flourish1594
luxuritya1636
vernancy1669
luxuriancy1712
luxuriance1728
floridity1831
rankness1873
vernality1896
lushness1900
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > proud flesh or granulation
proud flesha1400
proud flesh1578
fungus1661
hypersarcosis1706
granulation1739
luxuriancy1748
hypersarcoma1811
granuloma1879
supergranulation1882
1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. xii. 143 The ranknes and luxuriancy of our tempers..ought rather to be the subject of our extirpation.
1672 J. Dryden Def. in Wks. (1883) IV. 230 His malice keeps a poet within those bounds, which the luxuriancy of his fancy would tempt him to overleap.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 414. ¶5 A Tree in all its Luxuriancy and Diffusion of Boughs and Branches.
1737 Common Sense I. 25 I therefore prohibit all Concetti, and Luxuriancies of Fancy.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 102 Such a luxuriancy of funguous flesh, as yielded to no remedy.
1818 C. M. J. Clairmont Jrnl. in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1886) II. v. 203 The scenery to Bologna was flat, but of incredible luxuriancy.
a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 183 You do not expect wildness in walls, and luxuriancy in buttresses.
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