luxuriancy Now rare.
(lʌkˈsjʊərɪənsɪ, lʌgˈʒʊərɪənsɪ)
[f. as prec.: see -ancy.]
= prec.
| 1648 W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xii. 143 The ranknes and luxuriancy of our tempers..ought rather to be the subject of our extirpation. 1672 Dryden Defence Wks. 1883 IV. 230 His malice keeps a poet within those bounds, which the luxuriancy of his fancy would tempt him to overleap. 1712 Addison Spect. 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 Anson's Voy. i. x. 102 Such a luxuriancy of funguous flesh, as yielded to no remedy. 1804–6 Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 183 You do not expect wildness in walls, and luxuriancy in buttresses. 1818 C. M. J. Clairmont Jrnl. in Dowden Shelley (1886) II. v. 203 The scenery to Bologna was flat, but of incredible luxuriancy. |