sumptuosity
sumptuosity noun: the state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price.
Noun
sumptuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sumptuosities)
- 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)
- Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred thousand a year,—were this poor Prince once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift!1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Notables”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Parliament of Paris), page 71
Forms of sumptuosity
| plural | sumptuosities |
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Origin of sumptuosity
From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.
Questions about sumptuosity
- What does sumptuosity mean?
- Sumptuosity means the state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price.
- What part of speech is sumptuosity?
- Sumptuosity is a noun.
- What is the plural of sumptuosity?
- The plural of sumptuosity is sumptuosities.
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