Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being rampant; excessive activity; exuberance; extravagance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
rampant .
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Examples
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And who but Peter Harris, having noted it, would actually call it "rampancy"?
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And who but Peter Harris, having noted it, would actually call it "rampancy"?
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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And who but Peter Harris, having noted it, would actually call it "rampancy"?
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Their predictions are coming to pass not only with respect to the environment but with regard to the rampancy of the self-destructive greed and the fraud that feeds it in the economic realm.
The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians” : Law is Cool 2009
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After a painful final meeting with Mizzy at a local Starbucks, Peter heads back to the gallery: "He's not so far gone as to ignore the rampancy of the streets through which he walks."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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After a painful final meeting with Mizzy at a local Starbucks, Peter heads back to the gallery: "He's not so far gone as to ignore the rampancy of the streets through which he walks."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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After a painful final meeting with Mizzy at a local Starbucks, Peter heads back to the gallery: "He's not so far gone as to ignore the rampancy of the streets through which he walks."
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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We might squawk around the buzz of web addiction in the U.S., but it has become such a prevalent problem in countries like South Korea and China that their governments are taking serious measures to stop its rampancy.
Molly Shaw: Does your Teen Live a Second Life Through the Monitor? 2008
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With those words he presented another man without a hat, and also with a cigar, and also surrounded with a halo of ale and tobacco smoke, which man, though not so excited as himself, was in a state which would have been akin to lunacy but for its fading into sober method when compared with the rampancy of Mr Pancks.
Little Dorrit 2007
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See what happens when you only read the Bible. rampancy
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