[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being luxurious; † lasciviousness (obs.); indulgence in luxury or pleasure, voluptuousness; also profuseness, prodigality.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xxi. (1870), 285. Cucumbers restrayneth veneryousnes, or lassyuyousnes, or luxuryousnes.
1598. Barckley, Felic. Man (1631), 317. Ungodlinesse troubleth the Church, Injustice the common-wealth, Luxuriousnesse private families.
1651. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., II. i. (1739), 4. Retaining a tincture of … the luxuriousness of his great Grandfather Edward the Second.
1847. Pusey, trans. Horst’s Paradise, I. iii. (1871), I. 35. From all luxuriousness and uncleanness Deliver us.
1872. Spectator, 7 Sept., 1142. The almost Asiatic luxuriousness with which it is illustrated.
1889. Brydall, Art in Scotl., xiv. 311. A luxuriousness of effective light and shade.
