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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xiv. 5 Ech man habunde, or be plenteuous, in his witt [L. in suo sensu abundet].

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.v For the excludynge of contencion we suffer euery man to abunde in hys owne sence.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes 142 Let euery man abounde in his owne sense.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxix. 145 I wil not greatly busie my head thereabout, but suffer every man to abound in his owne sence [L. relicto cuique intellegendi arbitrio].

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 42 In those points..the Church leaves every man to abound in his own sense.

1701 Limitations Next Foreign Successor 17 He did not pretend to dictate to any man, especially to such young men as I, who always abound in our own sense.

1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 43 I was resolved..to let others abound in their own sense; and carefully to abstain from all expressions of my own.

1828 Times 30 June (Suppl.) 5/2 He who looks at human nature passing through ages..may abound in his own sense, but will not pretend to fix a standard to which mankind must conform.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. vii. 75 She..made no scruple of abounding in her cousin's sense, and pretending to sigh for the charms of her native land.

1900 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. I have been reading over ‘Catriona’ and ‘Weir’ with the purest pleasure with which we can follow a man of genius—that of seeing him abound in his own sense.

1942 Eng. Hist. Rev. 57 16 If others choose to make prouder claims the Dominicans may well let them abound in their own sense.