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overmultitude

overmultitude noun: an large excess in numbers.

Noun

overmultitude (plural overmultitudes)

  1. An large excess in numbers.
    • it is informed to this House that not only a great companie are now to come into this burge, but that an overmultitude of such strangers will suddenly pester the said burgh;1643, MSS. of the Borough of King's Lynn
    • […] and having considered with the best foresight we can how, in this great inequality of numbers, Her Majesty's forces might best be employed, to answer the service in all parts, whereby these barbarous proud rebels might be brought to chastisement, we see not that, in such an odds and...1903, Hans Claude Hamilton, Ernest George Atkinson, Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland, page 217

Forms of overmultitude

pluralovermultitudes

Origin of overmultitude

From over- + multitude.

Questions about overmultitude

What does overmultitude mean?
Overmultitude means an large excess in numbers.
What part of speech is overmultitude?
Overmultitude is a noun.
What is the plural of overmultitude?
The plural of overmultitude is overmultitudes.

Words near overmultitude in the dictionary

  1. overmultiplication
  2. overmultiplied
  3. overmultiplies
  4. overmultiply
  5. overmultiplying
  6. overmultitude
  7. overmuscled
  8. overmuscular
  9. overname
  10. overnamed
  11. overnames

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