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plethory

plethory noun: a plethora.

Noun

plethory (plural plethories)

  1. (archaic) A plethora.
    • [T]he appetite falls down like a horseleech, when it is ready to burst with putrefaction and an unwholesome plethory […].1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd...
    • The disease of the state is a plethory, / Who so fit to reduce it as I?1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus
  2. (obsolete) A plethora; a dangerous excess of something.
    • ‘It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 921

Forms of plethory

pluralplethories

Origin of plethory

Alteration of Latin plethora after + -y.

Questions about plethory

What does plethory mean?
Plethory means a plethora.
What part of speech is plethory?
Plethory is a noun.
What is the plural of plethory?
The plural of plethory is plethories.

Words near plethory in the dictionary

  1. plethoretic
  2. plethoric
  3. plethorical
  4. plethorically
  5. plethories
  6. plethory
  7. plethra
  8. plethron
  9. plethrum
  10. plethymographic
  11. plethymography

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