[f. LUSCIOUS a. + -NESS.] The quality of being luscious.
1594. Plat, Jewell-ho., III. 16. By allaying of the exceeding lusciousness of the mault with his bitterness.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, viii. ¶ 15. To embitter those sensualities whose lusciousness serves to intoxicate us.
1742. Fielding, J. Andrews, II. xii. If prudes are offended at the lusciousness of this picture they may take their eyes off from it.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. IV. vi. § 42. 282. A versification sweet even to lusciousness.
1879. R. K. Douglas, Confucianism, iv. 93. If a man has sumptuous viands laid before him and does not eat them, he does not know their lusciousness.
