† umbermentn.
Obsolete.
Number, multitude. Modern Kentish dialect umblement ‘number, complement’, is probably a survival of this.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun]
multitudec1350
numberc1390
pluralitya1398
manynessc1500
multitudine1547
umberment1550
infiniteness1579
numbers1591
populacy1597
plurity1600
numerosity1611
populosity1614
numerousness1631
populousness1651
multitudinousness1653
multitudinosity1840
1550–3 Decaye Eng. in Supplic. (1871) 96 Where tillage was wont to be, nowe is it stored wyth greate vmberment of shepe, & they that haue great vmberment of shepe, must nedes haue greate store of woll.
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