Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French foison (Wiktionary)
- Middle English foisoun, from Old French foison, from Latin fūsiō, fūsiōn-, a pouring, from fūsus, past participle of fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I recorded the date of my marriage and the conception of my wife and the birth of my daughter; and from her horoscope I find that her name is conjoined with that of her cousin; 401 and there are damsels in foison for our lord the Sultan.’”
“And it is almost needless to say that in both _subjects_ for novel treatment "foison," as both French and”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
“The others came back in the eventide, bearing with them foison of blue hare-bells, and telling joyously how they had found them anigh the coppice edge in such a place: and thereafter they were merry, and sang and talked the evening away, and showed”
“Paddington came in, too, drawling and lisping and twiddling his hair; so did Champignac, and his chef — everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches — plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.”
“ Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;”
“Juno descends in a chariot from the roof over the theatre to converse with Iris and Ceres; they bring with them the bounty and foison of a generous earth to help celebrate.”
“And as they had dreamed, so it came to passe: for being awakened out of their sleepe, in came his men with so great foison of fish, that the same might haue sufficed a great armie of men, for the vittelling of them at that season.”
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
“Latinus reigns you shall not [262-294] lack foison of rich land nor”
“There is a region Greeks name Hesperia, an ancient land, mighty in arms and foison of the clod; Oenotrian men dwell therein; now rumour is that”
“Greeks name Hesperia, an ancient land, mighty in arms and foison of the clod; Oenotrian men dwelt therein; now rumour is that a younger race from their captain's name have called it Italy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foison’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Foxtrot
F
foison, firmament, faustian, falstaffian, funambulate, florescence, forswear, fiat, fatuous, fatuousness, farrago, fatidic and 4 more...
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Useful Words
Words that I both like and feel could have use in writing.
confabulate, Albion, lugubrious, placability, aberration, acquiesce, ambiguous, succint, phototoxic, alacrity, indolent, perfunctory and 56 more...
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Libatious Words
worth pouring over
foison, fondant, fondue, font, found, funnel, fusile, libation, fuse, fusion, affusion, circumfuse and 85 more...
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Because I like them : E --- F
flamfoo, fangast, flattybouch, foison, flothery, flychter, fysigunkus, fruzz, fittie-lan, furr-ahin, faleste, flyndrig and 54 more...
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ananda's list
selcouth, arenicolous, eximious, sciophilous, cynosure, manumit, eclode, diapason, anacrustic, stramash, unguiculation, clishmaclaver and 38 more...
Tweets
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sionnach A very bountiful harvest. Jan 31, 2008
brtom "Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12 Jan 13, 2007