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Definition of Lavishes
1. lavish [v] - See also: lavish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavishes
Literary usage of Lavishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Northern Courts: Containing Original Memoirs of the Sovereigns of Sweden by John Brown (1818)
"—lavishes his treasures on idle pageantry. When Peter the First, on the sylvan
shores of the deep, broad, majestic Neva, laid the foundations of the future ..."
2. The History of Hampton Court Palace by Ernest Philip Alphonse Law (1890)
"... Anne's Lodgings"—Henry lavishes large Sums on her— Pays for her Dresses—Gives
her a Shooting Suit—Gives her a Black Satin Night-gown—Shooting in the ..."
3. Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by John Lesslie Hall (1892)
"HROTHGAR lavishes GIFTS UPON HIS DELIVERER. Then straight was ordered that Heorot
inside' With hands be embellished : a host of them gathered, ..."
4. Switzerland: Or, A Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the by Louis Simond (1823)
"War of Berne with Fribourg—The Plappert Wars—Schaffhausen—Tyranny of the Duke of
Burgundy, Charles the Bold—Louis XI. lavishes Money and Promises upon the ..."
5. History of the War in the Peninsula, Under Napoleon: To which is Prefixed a by Maximilien Foy (1829)
"... since, like a good father, he deigns to consult his children, and lavishes on
them the means of being happy. Long live the Emperor ! BOOK THE THIRD. No. ..."
6. Comparative Psychology and Universal Analogy by M. Edgeworth Lazarus (1851)
"At this moment she lavishes the fortune of a Jew, young, handsome, and a millionare,
whom she has preferred before the greatest lords of the court. ..."
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