superabound
Americanverb (used without object)
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to abound beyond something else.
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to be very abundant or too abundant (usually followed by in orwith ).
verb
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(intr) to abound abnormally; be in surplus
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rare to be more abundant than (something else)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of superabound
1400–50; late Middle English superabounden < Late Latin superabundāre, equivalent to super- super- + abundāre to abound
Example Sentences
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Fill our hearts with joy and gladness, that ever having of all things a sufficiency, we may superabound in all good works, in Christ Jesus our Lord, &c.'''
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
As to the number of our clergymen, it is large enough at present, there being but few settlements unsupplied with a ministry and some superabound.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
The law came not to be a mean of life and righteousness unto them, but that the offence might abound, that so grace might superabound.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
He clothes him with those amiable qualities which superabound in his own heart, and attributes to him a fidelity which is really far more remarkable on his own side.
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed, and, to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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