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▪ I. abounding, vbl. n.|əˈbaʊndɪŋ|
[f. abound v.1 + -ing1.]
Overflowing or plentiful supply.
1690Penn Rise & Progr. Quakers (1834) 12 The aboundings of grace. [Now gerundial.]
▪ II. abounding, ppl. a.|əˈbaʊndɪŋ|
[f. abound v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Overflowing; flowing in a full stream.
1684tr. Bonet, Merc. Compil. iii. 64 We must consider the quantity of the abounding bloud. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. 50 But Thou, exulting and abounding river. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. vi. 162 The beautiful and abounding Rhine.
2. Plentiful; abundant.
1697Snake in the Grass (ed. 2) 80 The surest Method..for a Young Man to step into an abounding Trade. 1866Standard 15 Sept. 4/5 The abounding cases of hardship which continually occur under certain obnoxious statutes.
†3. Affluent.
1631Donne Biathanatos (1644) 91 For every labourer is miserable and beastlike in respect of the idle abounding men. |