Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The number of individuals in a collection.
- noun A collection considered as containing a number of individuals.
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- noun obsolete ,(rare) A
quotum orquota ; anumber or people or things
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Brigands: an actual existing quotity of persons: who, long reflected and reverberated through so many millions of heads, as in concave multiplying mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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