abundantly

abundantly

English

Etymology

From Middle English abundauntly, habundauntly, from Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt + -ly (“in a specified manner”).[1] Equivalent to abundant +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/, /əˈbn̩.dn̩t.li/

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Adverb

abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)

1. In an abundant manner; in a sufficient degree; in large measure. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]

   Synonyms: fully, amply, plentifully

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

     Genesis, I, 20

     And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

   • 1905, James Geikie, Structural and Field Geology: For Students of Pure and Applied Science

     When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]

   • 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.

2. Extremely.
   • 1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion

     The explosion, in other words, was unexpected, powerful, and politically diffuse; it vented sharp African frustrations with the colonial situation, but had no readily visible leadership or political goals; it made abundantly obvious the need to speed the pace of self-government

Translations

in an abundant manner

Catalan: abundantment (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 丰富地 Dutch: overvloedig (nl) Finnish: runsaasti (fi), yllin kyllin (fi) French: abondamment (fr) Galician: abundantemente Georgian: უხვად (uxvad)

German: reichlich (de) Japanese: 多量に (ja) (taryō ni) Latin: abundanter, ūbertim Polish: obficie (pl) Portuguese: abundantemente (pt) Russian: оби́льно (ru) (obílʹno), изоби́льно (ru) (izobílʹno) Spanish: abundantemente (es) Telugu: విరివిగా (te) (virivigā)

References

1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 8
2. “abundantly” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 10.

• abundantly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• abundantly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.