plen·te·ous

(plĕn′tē-əs)

adj.

1. Abundant; copious: plenteous crops. See Synonyms at plentiful.

2. Archaic Producing or yielding in abundance: plentiful land.

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

plen′te·ous·ly adv.

plen′te·ous·ness n.

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Adv.

plenteously - in a bountiful manner

bounteously, bountifully, plentifully

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"And although I hear water splashing here like words of wisdom--that is to say, plenteously and unweariedly, I--want WINE!

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There was no need of this caution, for the elder Sedley himself began immediately to speak of the event, and prattled about it, and wept over it plenteously. It shocked the Indian not a little and made him think of himself less than the poor fellow was accustomed to do.

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And God created the great Whales, and each Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously The waters generated by thir kindes, And every Bird of wing after his kinde; And saw that it was good, and bless'd them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and in the Seas And Lakes and running Streams the waters fill; And let the Fowle be multiply'd on the Earth.

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that a poet cannot express verses abundantly, sufficiently and fully, neither his eloquence can flow pleasantly, or his words sound well and plenteously without celestial instinction, which poets themselves do very often and gladly witness of themselves, as namely Ovid in sixth Fasto: Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo, etc.

William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry: Vindicating Spenser as an Act of Self-Fashioning

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