All 3 Uses
copious
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- "And on his own too," replied he, "if you knew the man, for there is none alive that can give so copious an account of unknown nations and countries as he can do, which I know you very much desire."†
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- They have all their learning in their own tongue, which is both a copious and pleasant language, and in which a man can fully express his mind; it runs over a great tract of many countries, but it is not equally pure in all places.†
- and so, taking him by the hand, carried him to supper, and told him I would find out some other time for examining this subject more particularly, and for discoursing more copiously upon it.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(copious) abundant (large in quantity or number)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)