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Definition of Numberless
1. Adjective. Too numerous to be counted. "Untold thousands"
Similar to: Incalculable
Derivative terms: Countlessness, Infiniteness, Innumerableness, Multitude, Multitudinousness, Myriad
Definition of Numberless
1. a. Innumerable; countless.
Definition of Numberless
1. Adjective. Without number; having too many to count. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Numberless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numberless
Literary usage of Numberless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... in which pressing and deformation of the crystals are intimately associated
with numberless slipping planes with striation parallel to the slope of the ..."
2. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... and gains the same ad vantages over Puzzle, that a small body of regular troops
would gain over a numberless undisciplined militia. ADDISON. C. No. 477. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He has published 'Present Day Egypt> (1899) ; 'Mahmoud Pasha' (1903); 'East of
Suez' (1907); and numberless articles on international and economic subjects ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"290 Her fellow saints with busy care will look For her blest name in fate's
eternal book; And, pleas'd to be outdone, with joy will see numberless virtues, ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Shape of caps, globose. from 25-30 botanical varieties and subvarieties being
recognized; and the cultural variations are numberless. ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... as ' numberless/ is clear. But what Anaximander meant by calling his elementary
material the ..."
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