Abounding
[ə'baundiŋ]
Definition
(adj.) existing in abundance; 'abounding confidence'; 'whiskey galore' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abound
Editor: Percival
Examples
- This young Crown Prince was but a sample of the abounding upper-class youth of Germany in the spring of 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is a book to which all intelligent readers come sooner or later, abounding as it does in illuminating errors and Boswellian charm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She had found a new world, abounding in gold and silver and wonderful possibilities of settlement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The country is mountainous all the way to Atlanta, abounding in mountain streams, some of them of considerable volume. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Percival