largifluous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin largifluus.
Adjective[edit]
largifluous (comparative more largifluous, superlative most largifluous)
- (rare, literary) Copious; abundant.
- 1832 August 25, Leicester Chronicle; or, Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser[1], volume 22, number 1,144, Leicester: […] T. Thompson, […]:
- Not the hundred orations of Croker, nor the largifluous verbosity of a Wetherall, nor the insidious sophistry of a Peel, were sufficient to prevent them from enrolling their names amongst the most determined supporters of Reform.
- 1881, Edward St. John-Brenon, The Tribune Reflects and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, […], page 76:
- Since in this mighty Kosmic edifice / Man is her noblest work she charters him / With this strange life largifluous in his veins, / Until it fulminates within his breast / With such augmenting ire that he stands forth / Defiant of the Gods, a compeer of their ken, / A challenger and rival of their might / Ev’n in the mysteries of creative skill.
- 1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47:
- The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.