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multiˈtudinousness [-ness.] The character or condition of being multitudinous.
1653Gauden Hierasp. To Rdr. a 2 b, The eminency of the first, the mediocrity of the second, and the meannesse yet multitudinousnesse of the third. a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 132 He had observed the multitudinousness of his Fathers Chaplains. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 147 Shakspeare rightly called him [sc. the sea] ‘multitudinous’. But in spite of his multitudinousness [etc.]. 1876Fam. Herald 7 Oct. 366/1 The multitudinousness of God's mercies. 1890Spectator 11 Jan., Thinking grows..tired with the multitudinousness of the new subjects for thought. |