multitudinously

English

Etymology

multitudinous +‎ -ly

Adverb

multitudinously (comparative more multitudinously, superlative most multitudinously)

In a multitudinous way.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chaptet 32”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
  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.
- 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 35, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, OCLC 1166352534, page 379:
  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.
- 1922, H. G. Wells, A Short History of the World, London: Cassell, Chapter 52, p. 303,
  […] human affairs are multitudinously complex […]

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