Both Uses
profuse
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- He was quite portly, with a profusion of gray hair, and small blue eyes which age had robbed of much of their brightness but none of their penetration.
Chpt 22 *profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
- Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(profuse) abundant (a lot of something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)