[f. LUXURIANT: see -ANCE.] The condition of being luxuriant; superabundant growth or development; exuberance; an instance of this. Also quasi-concr.
1728–46. Thomson, Spring, 92. The whole leafy forest stands displayed, In full luxuriance.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1879), I. 87/2. Each had the luxuriances of the citizens to prune.
1777. Burke, Lett. to Sheriffs Bristol, Wks. III. 203. The faults which grow out of the luxuriance of freedom.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, I. 237. This calm luxuriance of blissful light.
1825. Lytton, Zicci, ii. The luxuriance of his fancy was unabated.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, 92. Vegetation … bursts forth in gigantic luxuriance and life.
1850. Gosse, Rivers of Bible (1878), 196. The cattle are driven … from considerable distances to feed on its luxuriance.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., vi. 312. The whole Equatorial zone is characterized by the extreme luxuriance of the vegetation.
