bountifulness

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As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father’s life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

His religious fervor, however, decreased in direct proportion to the bountifulness with which heaven rewarded his prayers.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

With the money thus provided by the bountifulness of Allah, he had been enabled to build for himself a citadel that for vastness and security surpassed those of all his rivals among the tribal chiefs.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

There have been women within my experience who went down into the grave accompanied by special pastoral encomiums, and whose claims to lady- bountifulness, on closer inquiry, rested solely on a foundation of jelly.

From The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth

That the Rotundifolias have not been more generally brought under cultivation is due to the bountifulness of the wild vines, which has obviated the necessity of domesticating them.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.