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sumptuosities

sumptuosities is the plural of sumptuosity.

Meaning of sumptuosity

Noun

sumptuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sumptuosities)

  1. The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
    • Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)

Questions about sumptuosities

What is sumptuosities the plural of?
Sumptuosities is the plural of sumptuosity.

Words near sumptuosities in the dictionary

  1. sumptuary
  2. sumptuary law
  3. sumptuary laws
  4. sumptuary tax
  5. sumptuary taxes
  6. sumptuosities
  7. sumptuosity
  8. sumptuous
  9. sumptuously
  10. sumptuousness
  11. sumptuousnesses

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