All 3 Uses
luxuriant
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
(Edited)
- It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.
p. 56.1 *luxuriant = rich or abundant
- His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
p. 58.6luxuriances = rich features
- The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
p. 100.7luxuriant = thick with growth
Definitions:
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(1)
(luxuriant) characterized by growing well or being richly thick or abundant -- as of vegetation or hair
or (more rarely):
characterized by luxury (very comfortable or extravagant) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)