单词 | plenteousness |
释义 | plenteousnessn. Now rare. Plentifulness, copiousness, abundance; fruitfulness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] speedOE fulsomenesslOE wonea1300 fulsomeheada1325 cheapc1325 largitya1382 plenteousnessa1382 plenteoustea1382 plentya1382 abundancec1384 affluencec1390 largenessc1400 uberty?a1412 aboundingc1425 fullness1440 copiousness1447 rifenessc1450 copy1484 abundancy?1526 copiosity1543 plentifulness1555 ampleness1566 umberty?1578 acquire1592 amplitude1605 plentitude1609 plenitude1614 fertility1615 profluence1623 fluency1624 flushness1662 rowtha1689 sonsea1689 affluentness1727 raff1801 richness1814 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] plenteoustea1382 fatnessc1420 feracityc1420 fruitfulheadc1450 fruitfulness1509 exuberancy1649 unbarrenness1656 efficience1669 teemingness1674 prolificity1718 generativeness1727 productiveness1727 prolificacy1756 productivity1818 fructuousness1855 teeming1856 plenteousness1864 populousness1881 fruition1885 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxviii. 47 Þou hast not serued to þe lord þy god in Ioy of hert and gladnes for plentyuousnes [L.V. abundaunce; L. abundantiam] of alle þyngys. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 113 (MED) Hou dredful is hel, In þe wych of wepyng is gret plenteuesnes. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 7569 A contre of plenteousnesse, as I rede, Full of all maner swete delites. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xi. 23 He gaue them plenteousnes of fode. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 98 Ȝit sall his seid leif into plenteousnes. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 226 Our cheerful minde..might..offend rather in too much plenteousnesse. 1685 T. Ken Expos. Church-catech. 66 O Heavenly Benefactor, who openest thy hand, and fillest all things living with plenteousness. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. iv. 159 The plenteousness of her gain, from a multitude of lovers, seemed, to her piety, to merit so rich a return. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. ii. v. 204 The Supreme Proprietor..who has filled the world with plenteousness. 1829 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 330 The indigence of the ancients in materials is converted into the most exuberant plenteousness. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 31 Set in this Eden of all plenteousness. 1901 J. Parker Speech in J. Munson Nonconformists (1991) (BNC) 163 Good men eat at the table of Divine plenteousness. 1952 19th-cent. Fiction 6 288 An Englishman..whose chief complaint was against the plenteousness of dirt and the lack of water. 2000 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 June 15 This plenteousness of supply means that nothing of less than three to five years' maturity in the logs will be used. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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