Meanings
comparative more bounteously · superlative most bounteously
- In a bounteous manner.
It is all a question of mode. Most of us are so bounteously endowed with intellect as to require also a spice of genius to choose the right form of behaviour.
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V)
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a bountiful manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishbounteously
- Englishbounteously
From Middle English bounteously, equivalent to bounteous + -ly.
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