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单词 sans nombre
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sans nombresans numbern.

Forms: Also 1500s saunce, 1600s sance.
Etymology: < French sans nombre: see sans n. and number n.
Now only Heraldry.
Innumerable. Also occasionally as adverb: innumerably, infinitely.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > too numerous to be counted
innumerable1340
unaimablea1382
infinitec1405
innumerousc1540
sans nombre1550
untolda1586
unreckonable1647
accountless?1650
myriad1654
myriaded1667
legion1687
myriad1765
dunnamany1836
myriadfold1874
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adverb] > to an innumerable extent
unnumerably1440
innumerably1574
sans nombre1655
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Fi .vi. thousande Lordes, Knyghtes, & Esquiers, and of the commons sans nombre.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter ciiii. 296 Theare liuing things: saunce number creepe.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 146 Locusts sans number and monstrous.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. Ded. 155 Any Author of a Book may multiply them [sc. Patrons] Sance-number.
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia v. i. 71 We'll swinge these Rogues with Indictments for a Riot, and with Actions Sans Nombre.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 119 Semé, Aspersed, Gerated, Sans Nombre, and Powdered, these terms are used to signify that a Shield or Charge is covered with an indefinite number of minor Charges promiscuously scattered over the surface. Powdered, Gerated, Sans Nombre, and Aspersed, however, commonly imply that the Charges are to be smaller, and more thickly distributed than Semé.
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