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English
Etymology
From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.
Noun
sumptuosity (countable and uncountable, plural sumptuosities)
- The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World , London: William Stansby for Walter Burre, , →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings.
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