different between bounteous vs plethoric

English

bounty +? -ous

bounteous (comparative more bounteous, superlative most bounteous)

From Late Latin plethoricus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ?????????? (pl?th?rikós), from ??????? (pl?th?ra, “plethora”).

plethoric (comparative more plethoric, superlative most plethoric)

(medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood. [from 14th c.]
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
  a horse-leech, whose deep maw
  The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill,
  And who, till full, will cling for ever.
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 81:
  Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied. [from 17th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 161:
  the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.

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