Literary notes about Profusion (AI summary)
In literature, the term profusion is employed to evoke images of lavish abundance and unrestrained excess. Writers use it to describe everything from the natural bounty of a forest—with “reddish agarics [1]” and brilliant flora in endless bloom [2, 3]—to human achievements, such as sumptuous ornamentation on clothing [4] or extravagant displays of wealth and generosity [5, 6]. In these contexts, profusion not only paints a vivid picture of opulence but also often hints at an overwhelming surplus that can border on both beauty and chaos [7, 8].
- In that forest delicious, reddish agarics grow in endless profusion, and elks still live in its deepest recesses.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Now the golden dandelions in endless profusion, spotting the ground everywhere.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - A tree that bears a profusion of brilliant red flowers which appear before the leaves.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - He wore a profusion of ribbons on his garment, and gold lace on his hat, which was also encircled by a gold chain, and surmounted with a feather.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts ever lavished upon him by fortune.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - It generates [305] in profusion self-less devotion and unconquerable love.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley - We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - The furniture was in all the profusion and elegance of modern taste.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
