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单词 strong in numbers
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strong in numbers
e. Made up of many people or things; numerous. Also more explicitly strong in numbers.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > of individuals, people
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numerous?a1475
strong1533
populous1548
multitudinous1603
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. f. ccclxxxix The nomber of open vnbyleuers professynge theyre vnbelyefe, neuer were so many at one tyme, but that the trew byleuers were yet the stronger parte.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 290 A strang spoyl thay bring with thame.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales 218 The souldiers sent to go forward with the enterprises, being neither strong in number, nor in courage stout.
1618 J. Chamberlain Let. 31 Jan. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 62 Our East Indian fleet is setting out,..They go stronger and more than ever heretofore.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. iv. 101 But behold Shakespear and Fletcher (bringing with them a strong party) appeared.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 347 The legions, however strong in numbers..were dismayed by the most abject superstition.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 153 The Cameronians continued a sect strong in numbers and vehement in their political opinions.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvii. 624 A very strong party of excellent people consider her to be a most injured woman.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 302 Keep the stocks strong in numbers.
1897 H. M. Jenkins Hist. Coll. relating to Gwynedd (ed. 2) ix. 78 At the time of establishing the monthly meeting, in 1714, Gwynedd must have become a strong meeting. The Friends at Plymouth were not so numerous.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 780/1 Amana was the strongest in numbers of the few sectarian communities in America which outlived the 19th century.
1997 F. P. Quin in B. B. Singh et al. Adv. Cowpea Res. Introd. p. xiii All regions of sub-Saharan Africa were represented, with..the strongest attendance from national program scientists from West and Central Africa.
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