PLENTIFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plentifully mean? 

• PLENTIFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb PLENTIFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a bountiful manner

  Familiarity information: PLENTIFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLENTIFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a bountiful manner

Synonyms:

bounteously; bountifully; plenteously; plentifully

Pertainym:

plentiful (producing in abundance)

 Context examples 

The force of the rush of water was checked by this obstacle, but it still squirted plentifully from every side of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But we may be picked up any moment by a sealing-schooner. They are plentifully distributed over this part of the ocean.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum, and once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Right below it there was an exceedingly small hollow of green turf, hidden by banks and a thick underwood about knee-deep, that grew there very plentifully; and in the centre of the dell, sure enough, a little tent of goat-skins, like what the gipsies carry about with them in England.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Soon after I heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of the words Peplom selan; and I felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice; that the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)