abundantly

English

Etymology

From Middle English abundauntly, habundauntly, from Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt + -ly (“in a specified manner”).[1] Equivalent to abundant +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/, /əˈbn̩.dn̩t.li/
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Adverb

abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)

  1. In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
    Synonyms: fully, amply, plentifully
    • Genesis, I, 20
      And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
    • 1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science
      When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
    • 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
  2. Extremely.
    • 1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion
      The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government

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References

  1. ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
  2. ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 10
  • abundantly in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • abundantly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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