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foi·son

 (foi′zən)
n.
1. Scots Physical strength or power.
2. Archaic A plentiful harvest; abundance.

[Middle English foisoun, from Old French foison, from Latin fūsiō, fūsiōn-, a pouring, from fūsus, past participle of fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]
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foison

(ˈfɔɪzən)
n
(Agriculture) archaic or poetic a plentiful supply or yield
[C13: from Old French, from Latin fūsiō a pouring out, from fundere to pour; see fusion]
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foi•son

(ˈfɔɪ zən)

n. Archaic.
1. abundance.
2. abundant harvest.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French < Latin fūsiōnem outpouring]
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Foison

 a great quantity or number; a plentiful crop or harvest, 1587.
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Paddington came in, too, drawling and lisping and twiddling his hair; so did Champignac, and his chef--everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches--plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.
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The French embassy on Thursday evening played host to an Opera Gala Dinner that featured Aurelie Loilier, soprano, and Claire Foison, pianist, who thrilled an audience composed of Ambassador Cecile Longe, high-rank Bahraini civil servants, business leaders and cultural figures.
Thus do they, sir; they take the flow o' th' Nile By certain scales i' th' pyramid; they know, By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow.
Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
L'accroissement des importations a ete l'apanage de la hausse d'une foison de produits dominants parmi lesquels figurent les oleagineux (+89,44%), le ciment (30,61%), le mais (26,93%), le ble (17,19%), le fer (17,9%) et les hydrocarbures raffines (8,62%).
Ils y trouvent un lieu de villegiature et de detente dans la fraEcheur, s'approvisionnant a foison en eau et se prelassant en pleine nature.
Sur ce point, la critique de Marx qui porte sur l'alienation de la classe ouvriere par les modes de production est sans equivoque (meme si l'on ne pourrait en dire autant de sa representation de cette classe, et surtout du lumpen, laquelle emprunte sans parcimonie aux tropes de l'abjection que l'on trouve a foison dans le discours disciplinaire bourgeois sur les classes dangereuses du XIXe siecle).
Et la derniere mais non la moindre, dont il est lui-meme l'auteur, la decouverte de l'inconscient, qui ruine la maitrise que nous croyons avoir sur nous-meme : reves, lapsus, actes manques et oublis temoignent a foison qu'un inconnu regne dans la maison.