AMPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amply mean? 

• AMPLY (adverb)
  The adverb AMPLY has 2 senses:

1. to an ample degree or in an ample manner

2. sufficiently; more than adequately

  Familiarity information: AMPLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an ample degree or in an ample manner

Synonyms:

amply; richly

Context example:

we benefited richly

Antonym:

meagerly (to a meager degree or in a meager manner)

Pertainym:

ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sufficiently; more than adequately

Synonyms:

amply; fully

Context example:

they were fully (or amply) fed

Antonym:

meagerly (to a meager degree or in a meager manner)

Pertainym:

ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)

 Context examples 

He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given elsewhere.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Kreis seemed to wake up and flash like some metallic, magnetic thing, while Norton looked at Martin sympathetically, with a sweet, girlish smile, as much as to say that he would be amply protected.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So far as your efforts are directed towards the suppression of crime, sir, they must have the support of every reasonable member of the community, though I cannot doubt that the official machinery is amply sufficient for the purpose.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I made bold to tell her majesty, that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which obligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The man’s appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for the worse; and except for the moment when he had first announced his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in the face.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have been at some small expense over this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the Red-headed League.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose he had considered that these were all the governess would require for her private perusal; and, indeed, they contented me amply for the present; compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her father's comfort was amply secured, Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. Goddard being able to come; and her last pleasing duty, before she left the house, was to pay her respects to them as they sat together after dinner; and while her father was fondly noticing the beauty of her dress, to make the two ladies all the amends in her power, by helping them to large slices of cake and full glasses of wine, for whatever unwilling self-denial his care of their constitution might have obliged them to practise during the meal.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The whole party rose accordingly, and under Mrs. Rushworth's guidance were shewn through a number of rooms, all lofty, and many large, and amply furnished in the taste of fifty years back, with shining floors, solid mahogany, rich damask, marble, gilding, and carving, each handsome in its way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)