Literary notes about Plenteous (AI summary)
The word “plenteous” appears in literature as a vivid marker of abundance, its meaning shifting subtly with context. In sacred texts like Revelations of Divine Love, the term underscores divine generosity and inexhaustible mercy—illustrated by references to the plenteous shedding of blood and the boundless grace of God ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). In travel and exploration narratives, authors use “plenteous” to evoke lands rich in goods and natural bounty, as seen in descriptions of fruitful countries and abundant harvests ([10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]). Meanwhile, classical poets and dramatists, from Lucretius and Virgil to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, deploy the term to capture the overflowing vitality of nature or the prolific quality of human invention ([17], [18], [19], [20], [21]). Overall, “plenteous” has served as a versatile adjective that richly conveys the idea of an abundance—be it spiritual, material, or creative—in a range of literary traditions.
- In which Shewing I understood six things:—The first is, the tokens of the blessed Passion and the plenteous shedding of His precious blood.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - I saw Him highly rejoice for the worshipful restoring that He will and shall bring His servant to by His plenteous grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - "The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it it most plenteous"
— from Revelations of Divine Love - The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - For it is most plenteous
— from Revelations of Divine Love - And that this is sooth, God sheweth in earth with plenteous miracles doing about his body continually.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - And this was shewed in all [the Revelations] and especially in the high plenteous words where He saith: It is I that thou lovest .
— from Revelations of Divine Love - In all the time that He shewed this that I have told now in spiritual sight, I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the Head.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - The Fourth is the scourging of His tender body, with plenteous shedding of His blood.
— from Revelations of Divine Love - And it is a fair land and a plenteous of goods.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - That is a full good country, and full plenteous of all goods and of wines and fruit and all other riches.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - And after, on this half, is the kingdom of Khorasan, that is a good land and a plenteous, without wine.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - From Sardenak men come through the vale of Bochar, the which is a fair vale and a plenteous of all manner of fruit; and it is amongst hills.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - And fast beside is another isle, that is clept Betemga, that is a good isle and a plenteous.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - In that city was the first siege of the King of Mancy, for it is a fair and plenteous of all goods.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - And there dwell Christian men and many merchants and other folk of diverse nations, because that the land is so good and so plenteous.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville - Those plenteous exhalations it gives off.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus - O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!—Of so high and plenteous wit and invention!—
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare - O, what a plenteous world of this will come!
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson - In long-lived olive-groves to Pallas dear. Take for a sign the plenteous growth hard by Of oleaster, and the fields strewn wide With woodland berries.
— from The Georgics by Virgil - Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
— from The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete