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Definition of Sumptuousness

Sumptuousness
Sumptuous Sump"tu*ous, a. [L. sumptuosus, fr. sumptus expanse, cost: cf. F. somptueux. See Sumptuary.] Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. --Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. --Tennyson. -- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Sumptuousness from wikipedia

- Nicholas Wroe in 2001, her voice was known for its "fully developed sumptuousness of the lower register, the vibrancy of the middle range...the top was...
- distinctive and include the Manueline, also known as Portuguese late Gothic a sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first...
- making his will on 17 February 1610. Cromwell requested that no "pomp or sumptuousness" be used at his funeral, "being not willing to have vanities continued...
- critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, contrasting them with other historical dramas believed to...
- (1957), teamed him with Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson. Despite the sumptuousness of the production and the good reviews from critics, the movie failed...
- possible de s'exposer plus somptueu****t!" ("One could not be more sumptuously undressed"). In 1788, just before the Revolution, the court portraitist...
- Clusius. In architecture, the huge profits of the ****e trade financed a sumptuous composite style in the first decades of the 16th century, the Manueline...
- resemble the houris". These beardless youths are also described as wearing sumptuous robes and having perfumed hair. Consequently, Islamic religious leaders...
- church at an early age; and his daughter Maddalena was provided with a sumptuous dowry to make a politically advantageous marriage to a son of Pope Innocent...
- ridiculed German princes, especially Augustus III, who imitated French sumptuousness. His own court remained quite Spartan, frugal and small and restricted...