Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lavishing; profuse bestowal or expenditure; prodigality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of lavishing.
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- noun The act of
lavishing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What a lavishment of effort and technique, no refinement spared—the equivalent, Edgar thinks, of medieval church architecture.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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What a lavishment of effort and technique, no refinement spared—the equivalent, Edgar thinks, of medieval church architecture.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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What a lavishment of effort and technique, no refinement spared—the equivalent, Edgar thinks, of medieval church architecture.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Her disposition was of the sweetest description, and fully justified the lavishment of the fond parental affection with which she was blessed; while her amiability was only equalled by her dutiful attention and consideration of the smallest wish of her kind and doating parent.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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Does love then bring disgrace, and ruin, and dishonor upon the object of its lavishment?
A Fool There Was Porter Emerson Browne
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The pleasure of the work and the pride in a production well done will amply repay an ungrudging lavishment of time and labor.
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays Walter Ben Hare 1915
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The pity of her worship grows, as the reader of his life, and hers, realizes how little return in demonstrative affection she received as the reward for her vast, and continuous lavishment of love.
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The overplus of men made them amenable to the commands of the women, who often dominated in permanent alliances, demanding lavishment of wealth and attention from their husbands.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Rosamond had to make her little confession, and he poured out words of gratitude and tenderness with impulsive lavishment.
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Rosamond had to make her little confession, and he poured out words of gratitude and tenderness with impulsive lavishment.
Middlemarch 1871
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