abundantly
English
Etymology
From Middle English abundantly, abundauntli, habundantly, habundauntliche, equivalent to abundant + -ly.
Pronunciation
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Adverb
abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)
- In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- Synonyms: fully, amply, plentifully
- Template:RQ:AV Genesis, I, 20
- And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- 1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science:
- When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
- 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
- Extremely.
- 1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion
- The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government
- 1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion
Translations
in an abundant manner
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abundantly”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
- “abundantly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “abundantly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.