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plentiful, a. (adv.)|ˈplɛntɪfʊl|
[f. plenty n. + -ful.]
1. Full of plenty; furnished with or yielding abundance; copiously supplied; opulent. Now rare.
1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xxxv. 269 Ther is plentyful countrey. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 225 Plentyfull of al good thynges. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 149 The Shore plentiful of Fish and good for refreshing. 1626Bacon Sylva §580 If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. 1646J. Benbrigge God's Fury 22 The Scripture is plentifull in avouching this truth. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 294 There were Inhabitants who lived in a plentiful manner on the product of that Island. 1838Lytton Alice ii. ii, His table plentiful, but plain.
2. Present or existing in great plenty; abundant; copious, ample.
c1510Gesta Rom., Add. Stories v. 439 Ye..shall fynde y⊇ mercy of God plentefull. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 6 A fat and loose ground, which..yeeldeth also plentifullest and greatest fruite. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 202 They haue a plentifull lacke of Wit. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 190 A plentifull Admixture of Sulphur. 1711Steele Spect. No. 79 ⁋3, I have a plentiful Fortune. 1893R. Williams in Traill Soc. Eng. I. i. 30 There is a plentiful supply of materials. 1898J. Arch Story of Life x. 254 The ‘Thank yous’ we got for our pains were not as plentiful as blackberries [cf. plenty a. 1, quot. 1596].
†3. Liberal, generous, profuse, lavish. Obs.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 626 Which things daylie more and more encreased, by his abundant liberalitie, and plentifull house keeping. 1625Bacon Ess., Expence (Arb.) 117 A Man had need, if he be Plentifull, in some kinde of Expence, to be as Sauing againe, in some other... For he that is Plentifull in Expences of all Kindes, will hardly be preserved from Decay.
†B. as adv. = next. Obs.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1574) 12 By that meanes, dothe the ground yealde the plentifuller. |