Lavishness [noun]

For every one acts his own part, but it tends altogether unto wickedness, lavishness, and troublesomness.

A careful study of Transatlantic examples might put our own boasted lavishness of charity to shame.

His generosity bordered on lavishness; yet even here, his prudence did not wholly forsake him.

Architects declared that it was as far as modern lavishness and extravagance could go.

At weddings, too, the display of presents is an object of surprise to the out-of-town guests, unused to such lavishness.

The lavishness of English giving, indeed, in all directions during the last two years, could hardly I think have been outdone.

There was a generous lavishness about the royalty of the Middle Ages, however great a fool or scoundrel the monarch might be.

The certain grandiose lavishness of his disposition occupied itself more with results than with means.

His wit is like his wine, Anglique: one never tires of either, and no lavishness exhausts it.

But she would not have approved at all of the lavishness with which he set before his guests the best things from her cupboard.