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sumptuosity en · NOUN

Etymology

From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
   • Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings. 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
   • Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred thousand a year,—were this poor Prince once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift! 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Notables”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Parliament of Paris), page 71:

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