non-pluraln.adj.

1941 N. K. Smith Philos. of D. Hume xxiii. 500 Tending to equate ‘unity’ with ‘the simple’, in the sense of the non-plural.

1992 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 21 389 The distinction between it and the other third person pronouns projects a more deeply ingrained cultural postulate than the distinction between plural and nonplural.

1958 L. Krasner in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 81/1 When used to reinforce nonplural responses, both stimuli tended to increase the frequency of such responses.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 73 297/2 By summing the appropriate values assigned to each polity, a scale with a theoretical range from 0 (non-plural) to 8 (highly plural) is possible.

1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. July 7 Greenspoon noted that both of these reinforcing stimuli effected an increase in the emission of nonplural responses.

1996 Current Anthropol. 37 685/2 There was no opportunity for the plurality of cultures to develop, and so I acquired a preconception that cultures, and ceramic styles within cultures, would be nonplural.