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Amply

Amply \Am"ply\, adv. In an ample manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
amply

1550s, from ample + -ly (2).

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amply

adv. In an ample manner.

WordNet
amply
  1. adv. to an ample degree or in an ample manner; "these voices were amply represented"; "we benefited richly" [syn: richly] [ant: meagerly]

  2. sufficiently; more than adequately; "the evidence amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions"; "they were fully (or amply) fed" [syn: fully] [ant: meagerly]

Usage examples of "amply".

Still to cultivate the acquaintance of someone of no uncommon calibre who could provide food for reflection would amply repay any small.

I was amply repaid for my own capture if it had won freedom for Nah-ee-lah.

In fact, Hamilton had amply demonstrated that it was he who had become a burden to the party, he, if anyone, who seemed to have departed from his senses.

So you must name a sum which will amply recompense you for the trouble and expense that you have had with us.

That cunning which is the wisdom of the worldling, and which he possessed in a very surprising degree, enabled him to adopt a course of conduct, look, and remark, which amply satisfied the exactions of the scrupulous, and secured the unhesitating confidence of those who were of a more yielding nature.

He obeyed her, and the romantic and enthusiastic girl, seating herself upon a fragment of rock beside the path, sang the delicate and sweet verses of the Irish poet, with a natural felicity of execution, which amply compensated for the absence of those Italian arts, which so frequently elevate the music at the expense of the sentiment.

It was one that the gentle and unremitting kindnesses of the widow amply deserved.

Hamilton had amply demonstrated that it was he who had become a burden to the party, he, if anyone, who seemed to have departed from his senses.

The result was a report which amply vindicated the reformers, and suggested remedies which would have gone a long way towards satisfying the Uitlanders.

We surely did not need to prove once more what had already been so amply proved, that bravery can be of no avail against concealed riflemen well entrenched, and that the more hardy is the attack the heavier must be the repulse.

If, during his long persecution by President Kruger, Wools-Sampson in the bitterness of his heart had vowed a feud against the Boer cause, it must be acknowledged that he has most amply fulfilled it, for it would be difficult to point to any single man who has from first to last done them greater harm.

He halted in the dining room entrance, suppressing a groan when he saw Sara glance at him from the far end of the amply laden table.

His lack of expression amply demonstrated that he awaited her reaction.

This ought to repay him amply for his little maneuvers in the carriage yesterday and his taunts and caresses last night.

Pierre and Jaqueline being about to return to their daily labour, found their kindness amply rewarded by the generosity of the stranger, who gave them money enough, they said, to serve them for six months.