multitudinouslyadv.
/ˌmʌltᵻˈtjuːdᵻnəsli/, /ˌmʌltᵻˈtʃuːdᵻnəsli/, U.S. /ˌməltəˈt(j)udn̩əsli/ In a multitudinous manner; in large numbers, in numerous ways.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adverb]
manifoldlyeOE
thick971
a-storec1300
rifec1325
thickfolda1400
thicklyc1400
by, in heaps1523
amain1549
numerously1611
frequently1615
sight1836
multitudinously1839
like flies1934
1839 R. M. Bird Adventures Robin Day I. v. 55 Not Gulliver himself, waking from his first nap in Lilliput, was more multitudinously overrun by the bodies.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. vii. 106 The rooms were dark, dark as the prognostics multitudinously hinted by the disappointed..guests.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 44 Multitudinously wretched.
1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods iii. iv. §2 285 Cascades and fountains grew multitudinously clear.
1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde i. 7 That a poet should be so multitudinously mourned decided her to be a poet too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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