Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
plenty .
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Examples
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For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.
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For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Theare is greate plente of Redde Dere, and Roo Bukkes. '
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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Jehans loua une mason grant et bielle, et si hierbrega la bonne gent et gaegnoit ases a plente, et viestoit son segnour biellement et richement, et avoit mesire Robiers son palefroi et aloit boire et mengier aveukes les plus vallans de la ville, et Jehans li envoioit vins et viandes ke tout cil ki o lui conpagnoient s'en esmervelloient.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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_ Trevisa in his _Higden_ says of Britain ‘þe lond ys noble, copious, & ryche of noble welles, & of noble ryvers wiþ plente of fysch. þar ys gret plente of smal fysch & of _eeles_, so þat cherles in som place feedeþ sowes wiþ fysch.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Bare, vj erles, the constable of Fraunce, the seneschall of Henaude, the maister Arblaster, and of other lordes grete plente.
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Also in this yere was gret plente of vitaile, that a quarter of whete was sold at London for ij _s_; and a fat oxe for vj _s. _ viij_d_; and vj pegons for a peny: but natheles it was ful gret scarste of money.
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In this yere greyn was suych plente that smal greyn was at xij _d. _, xiiij _d.
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Tak Partrichis wit [2] longe filettis of Pork al raw and hak hem wel smale and bray hem in a morter and wan they be wel brayed do thereto god plente of pouder and zolkys of eyryn and after mak thereof a
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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