plenteous
/ˈplɛntɪəs
/adjective literary
Plentiful: the meal was astonishingly plenteous...
- There are plenteous places in Singapore where we get economically-priced burgers, sandwiches and cold coffee.
- Her beauty was dazzling; even her enemies - and they were plenteous - could not deny this.
- The harvest is plenteous but the labourers few.
Derivatives
plenteously
- The ground untilled all kinds of fruits did plenteously afford.
- He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
- The Lord will give us his peace most plenteously, but not in a way of idleness.
plenteousness
- ‘In God there is not hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.’
- The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- He addresses Jerusalem herself: They have plenteousness who love her.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French plentivous, from plentif, -ive, from plente 'plenty'. Compare with bounteous.