[ad. L. exūberantia: see prec. and -ANCY.]
1. = EXUBERANCE 1, 1 b.
1649. E. Marbury, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xviii. 1–2. Which [praise] he expresseth in this exuberancy and redundancy of holy oratory.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 179. The use of those Cosmetiques which are contrived by Art to restrain the exuberancy of over-grown Breasts, and reduce them to their natural proportion.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 277. The exuberancy of it’s juice will make it knotty and sticky.
1843. Marryat, M. Violet, xvii. The exuberancy of spirit … had deserted me.
† 2. = EXUBERANCE 2. Obs.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 256. The marueilous affluence and exuberancy of all things tending to the sustentation of mans life.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., III. 611. The levels yield an exuberancy of grain.
† 3. concr. = EXUBERANCE 3. Obs.
a. 1633. Austin, Medit. (1635), 61. It was no Meteor; no firedrake … (Things which wise-men … know to be Exuberancies of Nature).
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. vi. § 38. 147. And some will censure this Digression for a Struma, or tedious Exuberancy.
