English

Noun

lavishment ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lavishments)

1. The act of lavishing.
   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II:

     At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.