Adverb

(en adverb)

In an ample manner.

* 1902 , , The Great Boer War , ch. 36,

If, during his long persecution by President Kruger, Wools-Sampson in the bitterness of his heart had vowed a feud against the Boer cause, it must be acknowledged that he has most amply fulfilled it.

Adverb

(en adverb)

In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=Fredrika Bremer, title=The Home, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=April 7, author=Kurt Jacobsen, title=Losing It, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it. }}