abounder

English

Etymology

abound +‎ -er

Pronunciation

Noun

abounder (plural abounders)

  1. One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something). [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
    • 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,
      Say, ye strangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! what will he do, when he finds himself still subsisting in a state, where none of those Pleasures, for which alone he wished to subsist, can possibly any longer subsist with him?
    • 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights”, in Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper‎, London: Smith, Elder, page 81:
      Wanters, abounders,
      March, in gay mixture,
      Men, my surrounders!
      I am the fixture.
    • 1895, William Morris, A. J. Wyatt, transl., The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats‎, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, published 1898, Part 16, p. 58:
      Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches
      And were fain of their fill.

References
  1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abounder”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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