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/plˈɛθərə/ /pləθˈɔrə/ Listen

noun

Plethora n.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; opposed to anaemia.

State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. "He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plethora" Quotes from Famous Books

... Puranas this bare outline is distended with a plethora of miraculous incident remarkable even in Indian literature, and almost all possible forms of divine and human activity are attributed to this many-sided figure. We may indeed suspect that his personality is dual even in the simplest ...

— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... O plethora of beef and bliss! Monkish feaster, sly of kiss! Southern soul in body Dutch! Glorious time of great Too-Much! Too much heat and too much noise, Too much babblement of boys; Too much eating, too much drinking, Too much ev'rything ...

— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various

... Hythe and Dymchurch has quite a plethora of rustic vanes—many crippled and others almost defunct—sketches of a few of which I give my readers. Note the one, carved out of a piece of wood and rudely shaped like a bottle, which is stuck on an untrimmed bough of a tree and spliced ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... religious ceremonies of the day being duly observed, CHOKEPEAR resolves to enjoy Christmas in the true old English fashion. Oh! ye gods, that bless the larders of the respectable,—what a dinner! The board is enough to give Plenty a plethora, and the whole house is odoriferous as the airs of Araby. And then, what delightful evidences of old observing friendship on the table! There is a turkey—"only a little lower" than an ostrich—despatched all the way from an acquaintance in ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... perish in the flames. The imperial power was a compromise which protected the property of the rich, and nourished the proletaires with wheat from Africa and Sicily: a double error, which destroyed the aristocrats by plethora and the commoners by famine. At last there was but one real proprietor left,—the emperor,—whose dependent, flatterer, parasite, or slave, each citizen became; and when this proprietor was ruined, those who gathered the crumbs from under his table, and ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

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