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prodigality

[ prod-i-gal-i-tee ]

noun

plural prodigalities
  1. the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
  2. an instance of it.
  3. lavish abundance.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prodigality1

1300–50; Middle English prodigalite < Latin ±è°ùŻ徱²µÄå±ô¾±³ÙÄå²õ wastefulness, equivalent to ±è°ùŻ徱²µ ( us ) extravagant + -Äå±ô ( is ) -al 1 + -¾±³ÙÄå²õ -ity
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Critics of the Build Back Better program aren’t willing to take lessons from this inexcusable prodigality.

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In January, in an academic piece written with one of his Cato colleagues, Terence Kealey, he called her “the world’s greatest exponent today of public prodigality.â€

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With the prodigality that makes it unlike all other ballet troupes, it offers four different programs in this week alone, including nine works by Balanchine.

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So the cumulative effect of the show is to emphasize the sense of protean excess and prodigality that defines almost everything Picasso did.

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And her most resourceful construction is the novel itself, a feat of narrative prodigality that staves off, word by word, the destruction of an entire community.

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