adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a superabundant degree.
1. Abundantly beyond something else, or above measure; very abundantly or plentifully.
1530. Palsgr., 852/1. Superhabundantly, superhabundamment.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., Wks. 1904, II. 171. He could haue beene reuenged on thee superaboundantly.
1638. Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. vi. § 38. 357. I conceive it sufficiently, abundantly, superabundantly proved to be divine Revelation.
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Being filled with the Spirit (1867), 253. Those that shall be superabundantly blessed.
1780. H. Walpole, Lett. to W. Mason, 9 June. We have now, superabundantly, to fear robbery: 300 desperate villains were released from Newgate.
1860. Mill, Repr. Govt. (1865), 48/2. These things are superabundantly evident.
1885. Spectator, 8 Aug., 1045/2. She discovers his character, and then husband and wife reproach each other superabundantly.
2. More than enough in a bad sense); too abundantly; to or in excess, superfluously.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), IV. 313. This Tiberius, callede Nero, was namede … of disporters Biberius Mero, for cause he ȝafe hym to drynke superhabundantely wyne.
1654. trans. Scudery’s Curia Pol., 185. Those who will be superabundantly and tediously wise.
1755. Magens, Insurances, I. 443. The King, super-abundantly, ordered the Treaties … to be examined.
1844. Emerson, Ess., Ser. II. Experience (1876), 72. My reception has been so large, that I am not annoyed by receiving this or that superabundantly.
1891. Leeds Mercury, 25 May, 5/3. The assertion that Italian art is superabundantly represented in the National Gallery.
