multiformlyadv.
/ˈmʌltᵻfɔːmli/, U.S. /ˈməltiˌfɔrmli/; see also multi- comb. form. Now rare.
In a multiform manner; in many and various ways.
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a1631 J. Donne Paradoxes (1980) 45 Are the businesses about which these men are conversant so conjecturall..that they are therefore forcd to speake oraculously, multiformly, whisperingly, generally..in the language of Almanack makers, for weather?
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 228 That One Numen, Divine Force and Power, which runs through the whole World, multiformly displaying it self therein.
1804 D. Humphreys Misc. Wks. 172 Militia bands, who fought to save their farms, All multiformly march in garb and arms.
1952 D. Devlin & J. Matthews tr. R. Char in Botteghe Oscure 10 142 We can build multiformly only on error. This is what allows us to think, at each renewal, that we are happy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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