abounder
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
abounder (plural abounders)
- One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something). [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,[1]
- Say, ye strangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! what will he do, when he finds himself still subsisting in a state, where none of those Pleasures, for which alone he wished to subsist, can possibly any longer subsist with him?
- 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights” in Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, p. 81,[2]
- Wanters, abounders,
- March, in gay mixture,
- Men, my surrounders!
- I am the fixture.
- 1895, William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (translators), The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, London: Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, 1898, Part 16, p. 58,[3]
- Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches
- And were fain of their fill.
- 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,[1]
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abounder”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.