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largifluous

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Etymology

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From Latin largifluus.

Adjective

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largifluous (comparative more largifluous, superlative most largifluous)

  1. (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.
    • 2013, Percarus, Percarus, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      Why is thy mind not expelling words in a largifluous manner?