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Grammar : Adj
Spell : am-puhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm pəl



Definition of amplest

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus "large, spacious," related to ampla "handle, grip."
  • adj more than necessary, sufficient
Example sentences :
  • As Shakespeare is the amplest of poets, so were theirs the most fruitful of courts.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • His familiarity with all these afforded him room for the amplest guilt.
  • Extract from : « Makers and Romance of Alabama History » by B. F. Riley
  • Her rank and title were to be secured to her in amplest measure.
  • Extract from : « The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon » by J.A. Froude
  • In the briefest appeal to history may be found the amplest support for these deductions from the principles of social science.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 » by Various
  • They deserve the amplest gratitude and credit for this happy interregnum, for they had no easy task to perform.
  • Extract from : « Seekers after God » by Frederic William Farrar
  • It was the amplest compensation that he could imagine for the mistakes and disappointments of his wasted past.
  • Extract from : « A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 » by Ada Cambridge
  • One is, to give the writer the amplest motive to do his best; and the other is, to prevent his writing too much.
  • Extract from : « Captains of Industry » by James Parton
  • His dome of brain was one of the amplest and most perfectly shaped I ever saw, and his countenance was very far from unpleasant.
  • Extract from : « Yesterdays with Authors » by James T. Fields
  • In this post his extraordinary gifts found their amplest sphere.
  • Extract from : « Studies in Contemporary Biography » by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
  • As to his religious nature, it seems to me to have certainly been of the amplest, deepest-rooted, loftiest kind.
  • Extract from : « Complete Prose Works » by Walt Whitman

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