profuse
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[edit]profuse (comparative more profuse, superlative most profuse)
- abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours
Translations
[edit]In great quantity or abundance
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Verb
[edit]profuse (third-person singular simple present profuses, present participle profusing, simple past and past participle profused)
- (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
- [1611?], Homer, “Book XXIV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- Mercury, thy help hath been profused
French
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[edit]profuse
Italian
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[edit]profuse
- third-person singular past historic of profondere
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Latin
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[edit]profūse
References
[edit]- “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- profuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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