Plentiful; in abundance.--Webster. Opinions differ as to this use of the word. Johnson regards it as "barbarous;" while Webster thinks it "too well authorized to be rejected." Dr. Johnson seems clearly in the right, notwithstanding; the word being the old French abstract noun plenté, which we are not entitled to turn into an adjective because it happens to end in y.
To grass with thy calves
Where water is plenty.--Tusser's Husbandry.
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion.--Shakspeare, Henry IV.
They were formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.--Goldsmith.
When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low.--Franklin.