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plentifulness|ˈplɛntɪfʊlnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being plentiful.
1. The condition of having or yielding abundance; affluence; abundant productiveness. Now rare.
1537tr. Latimer's Serm. bef. Convoc. A v, What man hath any thynge I praye you, but he hath receiued it of his plentyfulnes? 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vi. 36 Through the plentifulnesse of the yeere they do deliuer more. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 153 To breake into Thessaly, with the plentifulnesse thereof to relieue their wants. 1795J. Sullivan Hist. Maine 38 There is none which..exceeds it in plentifulness of fish.
2. Abundance, copiousness, plenty.
1555Eden Decades 266 This sea..poureth furth his plentifulnesse. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. xii. §2 The plentifulness of land seems to me the true explanation. 1905Edin. Rev. July 197 Evident from the very plentifulness of these remains. |