sumptuosity

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.

He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness

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