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  • adjective superlative form of ample: most ample.

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Examples

  • When you elect a president, you're not just voting into The Most Powerful Job Ever the prettiest face, the straightest shooter, the amplest codpiece, the most fun guy or gal to have a beer with.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Cecilia, penetrated with joy and gratitude, felt in that instant the amplest recompense for all that she had suffered, and for all that she had lost.

    Cecilia 2008

  • The constant demand for labor affords them the amplest protection.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • For where else should a man of sober sense look to receive great blessings if not from those who are able to help him most, and how else should he hope to obtain them save by seeking to please his helper, and how may he hope to please his helper better than by yielding him the amplest obedience?

    Memorabilia 2007

  • The constant demand for labor affords them the amplest protection.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Bardell could afford, soon afterwards rendered the amplest justice — indeed they wholly vanished before their strenuous exertions.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • The constant demand for labor affords them the amplest protection.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • I had no sooner begun my investigation than one fact presented itself clearly to my mind, which is that the country itself is made by nature to provide the amplest resources.

    Ways and Means 2007

  • With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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