superabound

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The more population abounds, the more will subsistence superabound, is his comfortable counter-proposition to Malthusianism.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

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

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.

Portraits still superabound, and finely painted portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in the present than in any recent exhibition.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 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