abundantly

English

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

abundantly (comparative more abundantly, superlative most abundantly)

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.
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

in an abundant manner

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
“abundantly” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 10.

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