sumptuosity

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sumptuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sumptuosities)

The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
- 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):
  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.

References

“sumptuosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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