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Definition
enthusiastic in expressing happiness or approval
- He passed the stewed apricots effusively.Chapter 5 (34% in)
- He galloped to the station, brought home railway maps, and traced motor-routes from Gopher Prairie to Winnipeg or Des Moines or Grand Marais, thinking aloud and expecting her to be effusive about such academic questions as "Now I wonder if we could stop at Baraboo and break the jump from La Crosse to Chicago?"Chapter 16 (11% in)
- At the Jolly Seventeen, two days after, she was effusive to Maud Dyer, to Juanita Haydock.Chapter 30 (44% in)
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