plethora

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  1. noun A superabundance; an excess.
  2. noun An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.

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  • "I felt that way before Toulouse, " Sharpe confessed. —  Sharpe's Waterloo
  • This World is supplied with a veritable plethora-if, indeed, there is any other kind of plethora-of animal and plant life. —  Trek to Madworld
  • The shelves themselves (the inexpensive board-and-bracket type) held not so many books as a plethora of other junk. —  Burning Water
  • There were any number of depilatory sprays on the market, as well as a plethora of advanced hair-removal gadgets. —  The Chronicles of Riddick
  • The author seems well acquainted with modern philosophy — indeed, he studied under Rudolf Carnap and even edited one of Carnap's books — yet he defends a point of view so anachronistic, so out of step with current fashion, that were it not for a plethora of contemporary quotations and citations, his book could almost have been written at the time of Kant, a thinker the author apparently admires. —  Gardner's Game with God
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin plēthōra, from Greek, from plēthein, to be full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also plethory; = French pléthore = Spanish plétora = Portuguese plethora = Italian pletora, from New Latin plethōra, from Greek πληθωρ/ν, fullness, in medicine plethora, from πλη̄θος, fullness, from πλήθειν be or become full, from √ πλη in πιμπλάναι fill, πλήρνς, Latin plenus, full: see full, plenty.
 

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