Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be unusually or excessively abundant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To abound above or beyond measure; be very abundant or exuberant; be more than sufficient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
abound very much; to besuperabundant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"superabound;" in this way also again showing his yearning, that even though he be so loved as to rejoice and exult, he does not yet think himself loved as he ought to be loved, nor to have received full payment; so insatiable was he out of his exceeding love of them.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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In Lesley Castle, the worlds of country and city alike superabound with sexual excess, whether adultery, sexual dissipation, or plain erotic longing.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Portraits still superabound, and finely painted portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in the present than in any recent exhibition.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various
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'In affection while the prodigal falls short, not taking due care of them, in exterior behaviour it belongs to the prodigal to exceed in giving, but to fail in keeping or acquiring, while it belongs to the miser to come short in giving, but to superabound in getting and in keeping.
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien
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As to the number of our clergymen, it is large enough at present, there being but few settlements unsupplied with a ministry and some superabound.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Assuredly it was a fortunate chance that took this lover of sunlight and space and splendor, in his most receptive years, to regions where they superabound.
Poems Alan Seeger 1902
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And of the comfort indeed, he saith, "I am filled;" ` I have received what was owing to me; 'but of the joy, "I superabound;" that is, ` I was desponding about you; but ye have sufficiently excused yourselves and supplied comfort: for ye have not only removed the ground of my sorrow, but have even increased joy.'
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Then showing its greatness, he not only declares it by saying, "I superabound in joy," but also by adding, "in all our affliction."
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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