Now rare. [f. as prec.: see -ANCY.] = prec.
1648. W. Mountague, Devout Ess., I. xii. 143. The ranknes and luxuriancy of our tempers … ought rather to be the subject of our extirpation.
1672. Dryden, Defence, Wks. 1883, IV. 230. His malice keeps a poet within those bounds, which the luxuriancy of his fancy would tempt him to overleap.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 414, ¶ 5. A Tree in all its Luxuriancy and Diffusion of Boughs and Branches.
1737. Common Sense, I. 25. I therefore prohibit all Concetti, and Luxuriancies of Fancy.
1748. Anson’s Voy., I. x. 102. Such a luxuriancy of funguous flesh, as yielded to no remedy.
1804–6. Syd. Smith, Mor. Philos. (1850), 183. You do not expect wildness in walls, and luxuriancy in buttresses.
1818. C. M. J. Clairmont, Jrnl., in Dowden, Shelley (1886), II. v. 203. The scenery to Bologna was flat, but of incredible luxuriancy.
