plenteous

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I know only that the fare was plenteous, and the hospitality of my new friends unbounded.

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  1. adjective Abundant; copious.
  2. adjective Producing or yielding in abundance. See Synonyms at plentiful.

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  • His voice is musical metallic,—fit for loud laughter and piercing wail, and all that may lie between; speech, and speculation free and plenteous: I do not meet, in these late decades, such company over a pipe!—We shall see what he will grow to. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • How plenteous is the harvest, and how few are the labourers! —  A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part
  • "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers unto his harvest. —  The Parables of Our Lord
  • It was not them he feared, but snakes, which upon such occasions are very plenteous, and very much to be dreaded--as the Bushman from experience well knew CHAPTER FOUR A TALK ABOUT LOCUSTS It was a night of anxiety in the kraal of the field-cornet. —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
  • His voice is musical metallic,--fit for loud laughter and piercing wail, and all that may lie between; speech and speculation free and plenteous: I do not meet, in these late decades, such company over a pipe!' —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
 

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  1. Middle English, alteration of plentivous, from Old French plentiveus, from plentif, from plente, plenty; see plenty.

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  1. from Middle English plenteus, plentevous, plentivous, plentefous, plentuos, from Old French plentious, plentivos, plentivous, plentevous, plentuous, etc., (plentif, plenty, from plente, Plenty: see plenty.
 

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