A-bŭn'dance, n.

n. [Lat. abundantia, Fr. abondance, Pr. abundantia, abondancia, abondansa.] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; — strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

Synonyms— Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. — ABUNDANCE, PLENTY, EXUBERANCE. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, &c. Abundance expresses more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor. Often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundancy; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, &c.

Whose grievance is satiety of ease, Freedom their pain, and plenty their disease. Harte.

At the whisper of thy word, Crowned abundance spreads my board. Crashaw.