Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being florid, in any sense; floridity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being florid.
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- noun The quality of being
florid
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- noun extravagant elaborateness
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Examples
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This is pretty good alliteration, but fancy phrasing does not a good burrito make, and to be honest, the only real basis on which to judge a burrito is the quality of the burrito itself, not by the floridness of a particular restaurant critic's review.
Simon Maxwell Apter: NYC Burrito Challenge III: Dos Toros Taquería 2010
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This is pretty good alliteration, but fancy phrasing does not a good burrito make, and to be honest, the only real basis on which to judge a burrito is the quality of the burrito itself, not by the floridness of a particular restaurant critic's review.
Simon Maxwell Apter: NYC Burrito Challenge III: Dos Toros Taquería 2010
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Some of his coinages “realpolitiking consiglieri” taken in isolation may be considered aptly descriptive turns of phrase and felicitous creations , but the cumulative effect is floridness with no apparent purpose, and therefore bathos.
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And therefore, seeing the verdure and floridness chiefly recommend this fruit, philosophers call it [Greek omitted].
Symposiacs 2004
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And therefore, seeing the verdure and floridness chiefly recommend this fruit, philosophers call it [Greek omitted].
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The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance, which she had helped with an artificial white and red; and she endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien, by a mixture of affectation in all her gestures.
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Davies and Risk, when called to supper, smelled strongly of rose-scented cold-cream; and Lund was unsparing in sarcastic remarks on the extreme floridness of complexion of the entire party.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!
The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927
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He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.
Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.
XXI. Book II 1920
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