c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 56 (MED) Ouþer of hotenez of humours or of mych aboundyng of blode.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. D2 ^v Neither is there any greater signe of clemencie..neither more vehement exhortation to be painfull vpholders of present honour, or willing suppliers of future wants, then the abounding of princely bounty.

1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 44 As for the Acid Saline Principle, I suppose no person who hath tasted the Spirit of Vitriol,..will question its abounding in that subject.

1690 W. Penn Brief Acct. Rise Quakers (1834) 12 The aboundings of grace.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 135. ¶4 First of all by its abounding in Monosyllables.

1718 Ld. Lansdowne Mem. W. Wycherley 6 His abounding in Wit is a Crime that will never as far as I can guess run into Practice so as to require a Rule against it.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. ii. 83 Carns..are more numerous in North, than in South Britain, from its abounding more with lapidose substances.

1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 22 What are these records of eternal woe, That scatter all the road, where'er we go, In manifold aboundings of all crime?

1912 H. James Let. 13 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) iv. 217 What a comfort it adds to life when you feel you can absolutely count on such aboundings!

1560 A. Lok Medit. of Penitent Sinner sig. 2Aii I blinde wretch,..Amidde my sinnes still groveling in the myre, Finde not the way that other oft haue found, Whome cherefull glimse of gods abounding grace Hath oft releued.

1579 H. Heron Kayes of Counsaile iii. sig. Cij Consider..that especiall gift of sweete abounding knowledge of eloquence.

1606 J. Marston Wonder of Women i. i, in Wks. (1856) I. 152 O..Man of large fame, great and abounding glory, Renounefull Scipio.

1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 80 The surest Method..for a Young Man to step into an abounding Trade.

1708 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 5. 12 She takes the Simplicity of the Novice as a convincing Testimony of his abounding Grace.

1742 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 3) I. i. v. 66 The Matter, when..cleared from the Perplexity of his abounding Verbage, lies open to this easy Answer.

1849 H. Melville Redburn xxx. 183 I make up for all neglects, with my own abounding love for it.

1899 G. Ade Fables in Slang xv. 185 Slangy old Gus, who had an abounding Nerve, and furthermore was as Fresh as the Mountain Air.

1932 A. Stewart Christianity, Communism, Adventism xi. 111 Post-millennialists..labor with abounding hope.

1992 E. Rhodes Ruth Appleby (BNC) 109 She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy.

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries 97 After they haue once dwelt in a countrey more abounding, they become finer and foolisher.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iii. §1 For every labourer is miserable and beastlike in respect of the idle abounding men.

a1660 N. Rogers Rich Fool (1662) 156 They in a middle rank..usually serve God better than the abounding or wanting men.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 64 We must consider the quantity of the abounding bloud.

a1696 M. Mollineux 3rd Epist. to Cousin F. R. in Fruits of Retirement (1702) 57 Alas, that thou hereby might'st rightly know How the abounding Streams of Love do flow To thee and others, with increasing Store.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 228 These foolish Fancies..Are certain Symptoms..Of boiling Choler, and abounding Bile.

1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. I. ii. 143 I presume that this, or even a much greater Channel, may be fill'd up in that Time by such a vigorus and abounding River.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III l. 28 But Thou, exulting and abounding river.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. vii. 235 The beautiful and abounding Rhine.

1868 T. Westwood Quest of Sancgreall 179 Through the chasms of the cloven hills..Sweepeth the broad, abounding river.

1920 W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes & Dancer 15 Hawk for news Whatever their loose fantasy invent And murmur it with bated breath, as though The abounding gutter had been Helicon.

a1967 V. Watkins Coll. Poems (1986) 223 The abounding river stops.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Aug. (Special Suppl.) 8 The name ‘Euphrates’ is Greek for ‘the good and abounding river’, but today the water's flow has been reduced to a fraction of what it once was.