God's plenty

noun

1

: a quantity larger than human need or desire : superabundance

since critics were … praising the use of symbols novelists determined to furnish the symbols, and in God's plenty

—Malcolm Cowley

2

: a very large number or amount

the book was issued in God's plenty

—J. D. Hart

Word History

First Known Use

1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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