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The word "amply" is often employed to stress the sufficiency or abundance of something, whether it be a temporal span, material provision, or the justification of actions. It enhances the meaning by emphasizing that the conditions or rewards are more than adequate, as seen when three centuries are said to amply account for poetic differences [1] or when one's rewards are described as amply repaid after accommodating sacrifices [2, 3]. Authors also use the term to reinforce the completeness of descriptions or compensations—from expansive historical accounts [4, 5] to the meticulous portrayal of personal attributes and provisions [6, 7, 8]. This adverb consistently underlines that what is conveyed is not only sufficient but abundantly so.
  1. A lapse of three centuries, say from 1300–1000 B.C., would amply account for the difference between what is oldest and newest in Vedic hymn poetry.
    — from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
  2. Should my exertions procure the gratification of your wishes, I shall consider my trouble to be amply repaid.
    — from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis
  3. His curiosity was fully slaked, his ambition amply gratified.
    — from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis
  4. This defect of the document, however, is amply compensated by a remarkable series of bas-reliefs which accompany and illustrate the inscription.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  5. On that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, inside the stagecoach, for Reading.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  6. His face and whole figure really were ridiculous at that moment and amply justified Raskolnikov’s laughter.
    — from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Lady Verinder amply justified the confidence which her husband had placed in her.
    — from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  8. He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given elsewhere."
    — from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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