Both Uses of
profuse
in
The Age of Innocence
- The young man, after a just perceptible hesitation, replied, with profuse thanks, and in a tone that did not carry complete conviction, that he was already engaged; but when they had reached the comparative reassurance of the street he asked if he might call that afternoon.†
Chpt 25 *
- There Archer, having regained his self-control, went on: "Mrs. Mingott is much better: the doctor feels no anxiety whatever"; and Lefferts, with profuse expressions of relief, asked him if he had heard that there were beastly bad rumours again about Beaufort.... That afternoon the announcement of the Beaufort failure was in all the papers.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
abundant (a lot of something)