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  • noun Plural form of infinitude.

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Examples

  • On each side were distances, the floor stretching away into them bare of vegetation — stretching on and on into infinitudes of rosy mist, even as did the space above.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • God just mentioned, by comparison with whom the gods whose myriads infest the feeble imaginations of men are as a swarm of gnats scattered and lost in the infinitudes of the empty sky.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Least of its numerous benefits, soil contains infinitudes of microorganisms that help start out decomposition.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

  • Every living man is a visible mystery; he walks between two eternities and two infinitudes.

    Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr

  • When men of finer cast realised that the kingdom of the spirit is higher than earthly royalty, they turned away from Indra and set their souls upon greater conceptions, ideals of vaster spiritual forces, mystic infinitudes.

    Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Lionel D. Barnett

  • Every living man is a visible mystery; he walks between two eternities and two infinitudes.

    Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

  • As the work advances, the letters and speeches of Cromwell become more intimately connected with the great transactions of the period, and the editor himself more frequently favours us with some specimen of his happier manner, where concentration of style, a spirit of humour and reflection, and a power of vivid portraiture, have _not_ degenerated into mere quaintness, into a species of slang, into _Carlylisms_, into vague generalities about infinitudes and eternities.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

  • No solace in the investigation of those infinitudes, which are only fathomable by a system revolting to my judgment -- the system of a theocratic philosophy; no consolation in the dreamings evoked by the lore of the stupendous skies: my heart throbs still for the detection and the possession of happiness.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • To Miss Schump, her hand on Miss Kinealy's shoulder and her head peering over, the voice seemed to trail off somewhere out into infinitudes of space, off into bogs of eternity, away and behind some beyond.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • He must have more that that; he must have another world lying beyond and around this, so that in the unfathomed infinitudes of eternity he may realize the incompletions of this earthly world.

    Democracy or Bolshevism 1919

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