An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old...
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