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innumerous, a. arch.|ɪˈnjuːmərəs|
[ad. late L. innumerōs-us countless, f. in- (in-3) + numerōsus numerous.]
1. Without number, too numerous to be counted; innumerable, numberless, countless. Now only poetical or rhetorical.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot Proheme Cosmogr. 329 An syne posseid triumphe innumerus With lang empire, and hie felicitie. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 455 The Earth obey'd, and strait..teem'd at a Birth Innumerous living Creatures. 1740Dyer Ruins Rome 173 Columns innumerous As cedars proud on Canaan's verdant heights. 1855J. H. Newman Callista xv. (1890) 170 At length the huge innumerous mass was put into motion. 1880W. Watson Prince's Quest (1892) 9 Cool with the presence of innumerous trees, And fountains playing before palaces.
Comb.1728–46Thomson Spring 570 All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.
2. Void of metrical or rhythmical number. rare.
1886Spectator 6 Nov. 1487 There is sure to be a host of them in rhyme, blank verse, and numerous or innumerous prose. |