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AMPLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sufficiently; more than adequately
Example:
they were fully (or amply) fed
Synonyms:
amply; fully
Classified under:
Antonym:
meagerly (to a meager degree or in a meager manner)
Pertainym:
ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To an ample degree or in an ample manner
Example:
we benefited richly
Synonyms:
amply; richly
Classified under:
Antonym:
meagerly (to a meager degree or in a meager manner)
Pertainym:
ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)
Context examples:
There was an inflexibility in her face, in her voice, in her gait and carriage, amply sufficient to account for the effect she had made upon a gentle creature like my mother; but her features were rather handsome than otherwise, though unbending and austere.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A present of fifty pounds, now and then, will prevent their ever being distressed for money, and will, I think, be amply discharging my promise to my father.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Charlotte assured her friend of her satisfaction in being useful, and that it amply repaid her for the little sacrifice of her time.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must be amply repaid in the splendour of popularity.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I will not say, at present, might he aspire to be Governor, or anything of that sort; but would there be a reasonable opening for his talents to develop themselves—that would be amply sufficient—and find their own expansion?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Would either of them only have given her a full and minute account of the whole affair between Marianne and Mr. Willoughby, she would have thought herself amply rewarded for the sacrifice of the best place by the fire after dinner, which their arrival occasioned.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
