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

On the road, the coster's cart, loaded with Mr. and Mrs. Coster and a group of Costerlings—the numerousness of which said "no race suicide here"—scattered abroad song, vociferous if not tuneful.

From England by Fox, Frank, Sir

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

FOURTH, A discovery of its inhabitants, their quality and numerousness.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John