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plenteousness Now chiefly poet.|ˈplɛntɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being plenteous; abundance, plentifulness; fertility, fruitfulness.
c1375XI Pains of Hell 47 in O.E. Misc. 212 Hou dredful is hel..In þe wych of wepyng is gret plenteuesnes. c1400[see plenteouste]. 1535Coverdale 2 Chron. xi. 23 He gaue them plenteousnes of fode. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 226 Our cheerful minde..might..offend rather in too much plenteousnesse. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. (1818) I. 244 The Supreme Proprietor..who has filled the world with plenteousness. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 558 Set in this Eden of all plenteousness. |