multitudinously
advEtymology From multitudinous + -ly.
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In a multitudinous way.
- Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXXII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- When one makes his first voyage in a ship, it is an experience which multitudinously bristles with striking novelties; novelties which are in such sharp contrast with all this person’s former experiences that they take a seemingly deathless grip upon his imagination and memory.1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC, page 379:
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- […] human affairs are multitudinously complex […]1922, H. G. Wells, chapter 52, in A Short History of the World, London: Cassell, page 303: