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ˈampleness arch.
[f. ample a. + -ness.]
1. Of extension in space: Largeness, breadth, extent.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 150/1 To defend and conserue fullie and wholie in all amplenesse..all the lands. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 36 The Protestants in strength and amplenesse of Territorie much exceed the Papists. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 16 The Sea..for the ampleness and extreme distance thereof from the Land was not possible to bee governed. Mod. A skirt of greater ampleness.
2. Of things immaterial: Extent, greatness, magnitude, grandeur.
1570Dee Math. Præf. 13 A Science of such dignitie and amplenes. 1692South Serm. to Mayor & Ald. Pref. (1697) I. 43 The Ampleness of the Body you represent. 1762B. Stillingfleet tr. Linnæus' Oration in Misc. Tracts 4 Whether i consider the ampleness of the place, or the dignity of the audience.
3. Sufficiency for its purpose, completeness, fullness.
1566T. Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iv. 87 The greatnesse and amplenesse of the worke. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 72 The largenesse and amplenesse of the word of God extending and stretching it selfe to all the spirituall occasions of all God's people. 1668Pepys Diary 6 Apr., The ampleness of his revenge. Mod. The ampleness of the apology.
4. Copiousness, fullness, diffuseness.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 429 The ampleness of his diction oftener results from throng of thought than plenty of words. |