profusion
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See also: profusión
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/, /pɹəˈfjuʒən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːʒən
- Hyphenation: pro‧fu‧sion
Noun
[edit]profusion (countable and uncountable, plural profusions)
- abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
- His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.
- 1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:
- Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:
- Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
- 2022 July 18, “Italian pride in a leader's humility”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- Elected leaders face a profusion of mega-pressure points these days – inflation, heat waves, high debt, or the pandemic.
- lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
Translations
[edit]abundance
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lavish or imprudent expenditure
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French
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Noun
[edit]profusion f (plural profusions)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “profusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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