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plenteously en · ADV

Etymology

From plenteous + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) copiously; plentifully; in abundance.
   • Thys Lepidium that Pliny & Paul [of Aegina] deſcribe, groweth plentuouſly about the water ſyde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland, in ſuche places as great heapes of ſtones are caſten together wyth the myght of a great ſpat or flood. 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Lepidium or Dittani”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 35, recto:
   • He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. 1919, Nixon Waterman, The Girl Wanted:
   • The old woman ate greedily, and drank still more plenteously of the sweet wine. 1831, Ludwig Tieck, The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano:
   • My liege Lord, my full trust is that ye will have consideration, though that my person be of no value, your high goodness, where God hath set you in so high estate to every liege man that to you longeth plenteously to give grace, that you like to accept this mine simple request for the love of Our Lady and the blissful Holy Ghost, to whom I pray that they might your heart induce to all pity and grace for their high goodness. 1838, J. Endell Tyler, Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2:
   • What was the effect of his widow's dedication to Cecil, is not known: it may be hoped that Ascham's works obtained for his family, after his decease, that support which he did not, in his life, very plenteously procure them. 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:

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