What is "plentitude"

Usage examples of "plentitude".

Brien IV and he likely would not have joined France in attacking England even had he not had a plentitude of homegrown problems to occupy him and his army.

It is possible that such a disaster was inseparable from too exuberant joy, and from a plentitude of experience which I would have refused to forego either for myself or for my companion in danger.

The night sky is shot through with the benevolent plentitude of the stars.

It is a precedent that has earned Rome no friends and a plentitude of enemies.

Their few ameliorating comforts were a plentitude of fresh foods and cool spring water.

Because of the forest with its myriad oaks and plentitude of acorns, many were the fine pigs that were raised hereabouts.

In a moment the power units were again operating, and now as they sucked a plentitude of power from the surrounding air, they produced a force that made the men cling to their holds with almost frantic force.

The woods of the Barrier Mountains held a plentitude of game, the sky was clear and the air untainted by the pestiferous odors of the city.

At first the solid repast, with its plentitude of good farmhouse fare partaken of during the hottest hour of the day, had somewhat appalled Magda.

A fondness for rich food was visible in the moon-round shape of his face and in the plentitude of chins below his ripe mouth.

Brien IV and he likely would not have joined France in attacking England even had he not had a plentitude of home-grown problems to occupy him and his army.

The larger, older man wore a full beardonce black, but now shot through with white, like his shoulder-length hairand this, when combined with his six feet of height, his big bones, his deep chest, rolling muscles, and plentitude of warlike scars, gave him a daunting appearance that any of the Vikings of old would have truly envied.

I spoke of the fertility of the earth there, of the rich ruins to be stripped, of the thick forests, the abundance of clear water, the sad, huddled, all but helpless knots of survivors, the plentitudes of wild and feral beasts to be eaten and skinned or captured and retamed to the uses of man.

Others believe that the inexhaustible plentitude of wild game, including turkeys, gave rise to the American obsession with meat, which, according to Waverley Root, astonished European visitors for two centuries.

I spoke of the fertility of the earth there, of the rich ruins to be stripped, of the thick forests, the abundance of clear water, the sad, huddled, all but helpless knots of survivors, the plentitudes of wild and feral beasts to be eaten and skinned or captured and retamed to the uses of man.