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multiˈformity
[ad. late L. multiformitās, f. multiformis (see prec.). Cf. F. multiformité.]
The condition or character of being multiform; diversity or variety of form, shape, or appearance.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. viii. (Arb.) 34 So is that part [the imagination]..in his much multiformitie vniforme, that is well proportioned. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. 64 Contention hath been mooued..touching an Vniformitie of Methode in Multiformitie of Matter. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage To Rdr., Barking out a multiformitie of oathes, like hellish Cerberi. 1720J. Johnson Collect. Laws, etc. Ch. Eng. I. Pref. p. xvii, Which created Confusion and Multiformity in the Church. a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 105 The characters in this play are either impersonated out of Shakspeare's own multiformity..or [etc.]. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lxiv. (1865) VIII. 77 The immensity and multiformity of Nature. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 56 The multiformity and frequent latency of the disease. |