luxuriance
(lʌkˈsjʊərɪəns, lʌgˈʒʊərɪəns)
[f. luxuriant: see -ance.]
The condition of being luxuriant; superabundant growth or development; exuberance; an instance of this. Also quasi-concr.
| 1728–46 Thomson Spring 92 The whole leafy forest stands displayed, In full luxuriance. 1770 Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 87/2 Each had the luxuriances of the citizens to prune. 1777 Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol Wks. III. 203 The faults which grow out of the luxuriance of freedom. 1820 Keats Hyperion i. 237 This calm luxuriance of blissful light. 1825 Lytton Zicci ii, The luxuriance of his fancy was unabated. 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain 92 Vegetation..bursts forth in gigantic luxuriance and life. 1850 Gosse Rivers of Bible (1878) 196 The cattle are driven..from considerable distances to feed on its luxuriance. 1880 Haughton Phys. Geog. vi. 312 The whole Equatorial zone is characterized by the extreme luxuriance of the vegetation. |