ABUND'ANCE, noun Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants. In scripture, the abundance of the rich is great wealth. Ecclesiastes 5:10. Mark 12:44. Luke 21:4. The abundance of the seas is great plenty of fish. Deuteronomy 33:19. It denotes also fullness, overflowing, as the abundance of the heart. Matthew 12:34. Luke 6:45.
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