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Plenty
King James Dictionary
or PLEN'TY, n. from L. plenus. Abundance copiousness full or adequate supply as, we have a plenty of corn for bread the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.
1. Fruitfulness a poetic use.
The teeming clouds
Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.
PLEN'TY, a. Plentiful being in abundance.
Where water is plenty--
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.
In every country where liquors are plenty.
The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty.
A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty.
They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.
When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low.
In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger.
The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Plenty'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/plenty.html.
