Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fulsome, in any sense.
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- noun The state or quality of being
fulsome or showingoverdone andinsincere flattery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun smug self-serving earnestness
- noun excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some people will love all that writerly fulsomeness; others might admire the writers vision, but long for more room to breathe.
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Some people will love all that writerly fulsomeness; others might admire the writers vision, but long for more room to breathe.
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Some people will love all that writerly fulsomeness; others might admire the writers vision, but long for more room to breathe.
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In short: a man who's fulsomeness, is fulsomely described.
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The Times piece does an outstanding job at clarifying the gains Murdoch has historically made by working that third definition of fulsomeness.
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A cursory reading of Jaroslav Pelikan's brilliant Mary Through the Centuries will acquaint any reader with the fulsomeness of such debates.
Archive 2007-01-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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Turks of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece, and those hot countries; to absterge belike that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject.
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A cursory reading of Jaroslav Pelikan's brilliant Mary Through the Centuries will acquaint any reader with the fulsomeness of such debates.
A Protestant appreciation of Mary Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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HAGEL: Well, there is little question about the fulsomeness of Bob Kerrey's courage, his patriotism, his heroism, his leadership, putting others first.
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The city, though without the fulsomeness of Babylon, had opened its gates at once.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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