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单词 plenteously
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plenteouslyadv.

Brit. /ˈplɛntɪəsli/, U.S. /ˈplɛn(t)iəsli/
Forms: see plenteous adj. and -ly suffix2; also Middle English pletesuowsli (transmission error), Middle English plentynouslich (transmission error), Middle English plentenousely (transmission error), 1600s plent'ously (poetic).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plenteous adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < plenteous adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare Anglo-Norman plentevousement, plentivusement, Anglo-Norman and Old French plentivousement (c1190 in Old French), Middle French plentiveusement (second half of the 15th cent.).
Abundantly, copiously, plentifully; in plenty; in large amounts; generously, liberally.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb]
enoughOE
roomOE
largely?c1225
rifec1225
foison13..
rivedlyc1300
plenteously1340
plentily1340
fulsomelya1375
abundantlya1382
plenteousc1390
aboundinglyc1400
plentifullyc1400
copiously1447
abundanta1450
amply1454
substantiously1507
fatly?1521
largea1522
plentiful1563
heartily?1577
locupletely1599
redundantly1615
mainly1618
showeringly1621
rifely1648
profusively1650
galore1675
prolifically1735
wholesale1762
copious1791
aplenty1830
plenty1842
swimming1887
the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adverb]
roomlyOE
freelyOE
unsparelya1225
largelyc1225
largec1350
liberallyc1410
unsparinglya1500
beneficially1530
bounteously1531
plenteously1535
frankly1551
well1565
well-favouredly1570
bountifully1580
prodigally1590
amply1594
munificently1594
royally1601
prodigal1603
generously1623
ungrudginglya1631
lavishly1769
unstintingly1857
spaciously1864
open-handedly1924
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 51 Uor þet þet me eth and dryngþ..to plentyuousliche.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 180 Briddes & smale bestes wiþ his bow he quelles..plenteousliche.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 76 Men findez manna mare plentifously and better þan in any oþer place.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 124 (MED) Pray..to Jesu..His hevenly deuh plentyvously to scheede On us.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit iv. 8 Yf thou hast moch, geue plenteously.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Bj This herbe groweth plentuously in my lordes gardyne at Syon.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vii. 411 Some are so plenteously endu'd with grace.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 392 Each Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously The waters generated by thir kindes. View more context for this quotation
1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court xiii. 33 He shook his Sides, and wish'd them gone, Whilst plenteously they Fed.
1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. ii. 41 Tom, whose heart was of the melting mood, began to sob and weep plenteously, from pure affection.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 6 The moist earth fed So plenteously all weed-hidden roots Into o'er-hanging boughs.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvi. 320 They [sc. tears] did flow and plenteously, and one fell upon the stone bench beside her.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 47 372/1 Sexual reproduction proceeds plenteously in maize-meal-agar cultures.
1992 Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 May 14 Eating and drinking plenteously can be done with much more relish if no man is watching.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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