UMBERTYalso OMBERTY
NOUN abundance ...1575 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY apparently from an alteration of 'uberty' abundance, after 'umber' number FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1575 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...Then in Philosophy both morall and naturall, I think he be az naturally overseen: beside poetrie and Astronomie, and oother hid sciencez, as I may guesse by the omberty of hiz books;..." From: A Letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queenz Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwik Sheer in this Soomerz Progress. By: Robert Laneham, 1575 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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