superabound

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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

It is possible that nitrates may superabound in the soil from the oxydizement of the nitrogen of a superfluity of ammonia.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

Could I but work that force as an ideal I felt it must see me through, for the beauty of it in that form was that it should absolutely superabound.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

Assuredly it was a fortunate chance that took this lover of sunlight and space and splendor, in his most receptive years, to regions where they superabound.

From Poems by Seeger, Alan