aboundingly

English

Etymology

abounding +‎ -ly

Adverb

aboundingly (comparative more aboundingly, superlative most aboundingly)

  1. In an abounding manner; in a manner that abounds. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)][1]
    Synonyms: plentifully, profusely
    • 1693, Richard Baldwin, chapter 27, in Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais […] containing the heroic deeds of Pantagruel the Son of Gargantua‎, London, page 223:
      Hereby you may perceive, although my future Wife were as unsatiable and gluttonous in her Voluptuousness, and the Delights of Venery, as ever was the Empress Messalina, or yet the Marchioness in England; and I desire thee to give Credit to it, that I lack not for what is requisite to overlay the Stomach of her Lust, but have wherewith aboundingly to please her.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 206:
      How it was that they [the crew] so aboundingly responded to the old man’s ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs […] all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.
    • 1967, Max Eastman, Seven Kinds of Goodness‎, New York: Horizon Press, pages 142–143:
      [True temperance] flows logically from a wish not only to avoid the death dealt by indulgence, but to possess aboundingly the joys of life.
  2. To an abounding degree.
    Synonyms: abundantly, greatly, enormously, immensely
    • 1859, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton dated 10 December, 1859, in Letters of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904, Volume 1, p. 91,
      I have your kind letter with Lowell’s—both quite aboundingly helpful to me.
    • 1908, Henry James, letter to Edith Wharton dated 13 October, 1908, in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, 1920, Volume 2, p. 108,
      Believe meanwhile and always in the aboundingly tender friendship […] of yours more than ever, Henry James.
    • 1997, Louis Auchincloss, “The Atonement”, in The Atonement and Other Stories,‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 31:
      But why on earth should he take the chance of tying himself up for life to the victim of obsessions and depressions? Particularly when a girl like Amanda Craig, rich and aboundingly healthy, had an obvious crush on him?

References
  1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aboundingly”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
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