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Definition of Plenitude
1. Noun. A full supply. "There was plenty of food for everyone"
Generic synonyms: Abundance, Copiousness, Teemingness
Derivative terms: Plenteous, Plentiful, Plentiful, Plenteous
Definition of Plenitude
1. n. The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.
Definition of Plenitude
1. Noun. Fullness; completeness. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Noun. An abundance; a full supply. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
3. Noun. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plenitude
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plenitude
Literary usage of Plenitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"... a plenitude as indispensably antecedent to it; if the form of God be also ...
with that precedent plenitude; then must we confess, Christ was in the ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... to destroy: Through him soft peace and plenitude of joy Perpetual o'er the
world redeem'd shall flow. _ frier. ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"Roman republic, by which the husband was invested with the plenitude of paternal
power of life and death over the Christy, Dig. tit. ..."
4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"The Spanish government, restored to the plenitude of its absolute authority, and
dreading the example of the peaceable establishment of a constitutional ..."
5. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1906)
"Pius II. t in the discourse which he addressed to them insisted on] the plenitude
of the Papal power. No one, he said, waa\ to imagine that the authority of ..."
6. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"... a plenitude as indispensably antecedent to it; if the form of God be also ...
with that precedent plenitude; then must we confess, Christ was in the ..."
7. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... to destroy: Through him soft peace and plenitude of joy Perpetual o'er the
world redeem'd shall flow. _ frier. ..."
8. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"Roman republic, by which the husband was invested with the plenitude of paternal
power of life and death over the Christy, Dig. tit. ..."
9. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"The Spanish government, restored to the plenitude of its absolute authority, and
dreading the example of the peaceable establishment of a constitutional ..."
10. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1906)
"Pius II. t in the discourse which he addressed to them insisted on] the plenitude
of the Papal power. No one, he said, waa\ to imagine that the authority of ..."
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