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  • noun Exuberance.

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  • noun Archaic form of exuberance.

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Examples

  • The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which, in the regularity of its plantation, vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which, in the regularity of its plantation, vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it.

    The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900

  • It was the old, wild exuberancy of his college days, only intensified by the deepest and most grateful emotion.

    His Sombre Rivals Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • I was playing now for high stakes, and the exuberancy of spirit which had formerly accompanied my actions had deserted me, and I was left a prey to care, and, I must confess, to suspicion; but it was too late to retrace my steps, and moreover, I was too proud not to finish what I had begun, even if it should be at the expense of my life.

    Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

  • I was playing now for high stakes, and the exuberancy of spirit which had formerly accompanied my actions had deserted me, and I was left a prey to care, and, I must confess, to suspicion; but it was too late to retrace my steps, and, moreover, I was too proud not to finish what I had begun, even if it should be at the expense of my life.

    Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

  • But you may perhaps be solicitous to ask, what becomes of that exuberancy of population which must arise from so much temperance, from healthiness of climate, and from early marriage?

    Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774

  • It feeds, it clothes us, from it we draw even a great exuberancy, our best meat, our richest drink, the very honey of our bees comes from this. privileged spot.

    Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774

  • The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which, in the regularity of its plantation, vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it.

    Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730

  • The Greek word signifies an exuberancy of joy, a joy with boasting and triumph.

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • It feeds, it clothes us, from it we draw even a great exuberancy, our beft meat, our richeft drink, the very honey of our bees comes from. this privi - leged fpot.

    The Monthly Review 1782

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