Adverb

(en-adv)

In a widespread or large manner.

For the most part; mainly or chiefly.

*

Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}

On a large scale; amply.

* 1913 ,

Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .

*:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.

(obsolete) Fully, at great length.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

Adverb

(en adverb)

(archaic) copiously; plentifully; in abundance.

* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Nixon Waterman, title=The Girl Wanted, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Ludwig Tieck, title=The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The old woman ate greedily, and drank still more plenteously of the sweet wine. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1838, author=J. Endell Tyler, title=Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=My liege Lord, my full trust is that ye will have consideration, though that my person be of no value, your high goodness, where God hath set you in so high estate to every liege man that to you longeth plenteously to give grace, that you like to accept this mine simple request for the love of Our Lady and the blissful Holy Ghost, to whom I pray that they might your heart induce to all pity and grace for their high goodness. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=What was the effect of his widow's dedication to Cecil, is not known: it may be hoped that Ascham's works obtained for his family, after his decease, that support which he did not, in his life, very plenteously procure them. }}