numerousness

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Beyond that, there is the possibility�once just a joke about the numerousness of the Kennedys, now sometimes talked about seriously�that Bobby might try to succeed Jack in the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

I say, then, that small sins, by reason of their numerousness, have a terrible accumulative power.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

Finally, the revelation of the seven thousand—a round number, which expresses the sacredness as well as the numerousness of the elect, hidden ones—rebukes the hasty assumption of his being left alone, 'faithful among the faithless.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

Yet another source of corruption in legislation is to be found in the mere numerousness of the States themselves.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry

I need not dwell upon the numerousness that is suggested.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander