plenteously
English
Adverb
plenteously (comparative more plenteously, superlative most plenteously)
- (archaic) copiously; plentifully; in abundance.
- 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Lepidium or Dittani”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 35, recto:
- Thys Lepidium that Pliny & Paul [of Aegina] deſcribe, groweth plentuouſly about the water ſyde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland, in ſuche places as great heapes of ſtones are caſten together wyth the myght of a great ſpat or flood.
- 1838, J. Endell Tyler, Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2:
- My liege Lord, my full trust is that ye will have consideration, though that my person be of no value, your high goodness, where God hath set you in so high estate to every liege man that to you longeth plenteously to give grace, that you like to accept this mine simple request for the love of Our Lady and the blissful Holy Ghost, to whom I pray that they might your heart induce to all pity and grace for their high goodness.
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