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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a bounteous manner; with generous liberality; liberally; generously; largely; freely.

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  • adverb In a bounteous manner.

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  • adverb in a bountiful manner

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Examples

  • Waited for a PR person to come out; she was not bounteously endowed with a sense of humor, and said NO.

    Friday! Dec. 11 – The Bleat. 2009

  • Allah hath bounteously bestowed on thee a Barber who is an astrologer, one learned in alchemy and white magic; 612 syntax, grammar, and lexicology; the arts of logic, rhetoric and elocution; mathematics, arithmetic and algebra; astronomy, astromancy and geometry; theology, the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And nowhere does such hope blossom more bounteously than among writers who this season have churned out a mountain of books that aspire to move beyond what James Baldwin called the "" obscenity of color. ''

    Why We Can't Get Along 2008

  • Heaven has bounteously furnished us with every comfort, with every elegance, with every luxury.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • We were ushered into the dining room, where a huge table was bounteously laid and the guests, about twenty of them, were beginning the main course.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • We were ushered into the dining room, where a huge table was bounteously laid and the guests, about twenty of them, were beginning the main course.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • Heereupon the Duke of Athens, beeing young, goodly, and valiant of person as also a neere Kinsman to the Prince, had a desire to see her; and under colour of visiting his noble Kinsman, (as oftentimes before he had done) attended with an honourable traine, to Smirna he came, being there most royally welcommed, and bounteously feasted.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Mr. Bolton had the name of being a hard man, because, having begun life in small circumstances, he had never learned to chuck his shillings about easily; but he had, in a most liberal manner, made over the bulk of his fortune to his sons; and though he himself could rarely be got to sit at their tables, he took delight in hearing that they lived bounteously with their friends.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • He was one of those who were captured by Olivier, and, like all the rest except the general, appears to have been bounteously treated and promptly set free.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Most of us are so bounteously endowed with intellect as to require also a spice of genius to choose the right form of behaviour.

    The Gambler 2003

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