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单词 their name is legion
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their name is Legion
b. Originally: †a vast number (obsolete). Subsequently chiefly in their name is Legion (and variants): they are very numerous.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark v. 9 A legioun [L. legio] is name to me; for we ben manye.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark v. f. xlixv My name is Legion [Gk. λεγιὼν], for we are many.]
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xvi. 151 Thus the same undivided Essence, from the several circumstances of its being and operations, is here multiplied into Legion.
1701 R. Cocks 12 May in Parl. Diary (1996) 126 It complained..that tho there was no na[me] to it that they were 200000 that there name was legion.
1752 G. Whitefield Let. 29 Sept. in Wks. (1771) II. 445 Every Student's name is Legion. Helping one of those, is helping thousands.
1846 Voice of Industry 15 May 2/3 Our name is legion though our oppression be great.
1886 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 646 Of the writers who have put forward their own particular views as to the origin of the pointed arch, it may be said their name is legion.
1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 271/1 ‘Kiss-in-the-Ring’ and the other innumerable love-making games. Their name is legion.
1943 Princeton Alumni Weekly 19 Nov. 11/2 The youngsters of under 40 whose name is legion.
2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 62/3 Chubais's many Russian critics—and their name is legion.
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