Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Innumerable.
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- adjective obsolete Innumerable.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
innumerable .
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- adjective too numerous to be counted
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think of the unnumerable tiny beasts that have jangled in that pale forest; of the winged blue jewels of butterfly risen from it to hover on the wild-rustling blades; of that continual music played there by the wind; of the chicory and poppy flowers that have been its lights-o 'love, as it grew tawny and full of life, before the appointed date when it should return to its captivity.
Studies and Essays: Quality and Others John Galsworthy 1900
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I think of the unnumerable tiny beasts that have jangled in that pale forest; of the winged blue jewels of butterfly risen from it to hover on the wild-rustling blades; of that continual music played there by the wind; of the chicory and poppy flowers that have been its lights-o 'love, as it grew tawny and full of life, before the appointed date when it should return to its captivity.
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900
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I think of the unnumerable tiny beasts that have jangled in that pale forest; of the winged blue jewels of butterfly risen from it to hover on the wild-rustling blades; of that continual music played there by the wind; of the chicory and poppy flowers that have been its lights-o 'love, as it grew tawny and full of life, before the appointed date when it should return to its captivity.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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It was a cookery book, full of unnumerable old fashions of English dishes, and illustrated with engravings, which represented the arrangements of the table at such banquets as it might have befitted a nobleman to give, in the great hall of his castle.
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I sat down before him and for three consecutive hours I narrated scandalous histories unnumerable, which, however, I told simply and not spicily, since I felt ascetically disposed and obliged myself to speak with a contrition I did not feel, for when I recounted my follies I was very far from finding the remembrance of them disagreeable.
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I sat down before him and for three consecutive hours I narrated scandalous histories unnumerable, which, however, I told simply and not spicily, since I felt ascetically disposed and obliged myself to speak with a contrition I did not feel, for when I recounted my follies I was very far from finding the remembrance of them disagreeable.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I sat down before him and for three consecutive hours I narrated scandalous histories unnumerable, which, however, I told simply and not spicily, since I felt ascetically disposed and obliged myself to speak with a contrition I did not feel, for when I recounted my follies I was very far from finding the remembrance of them disagreeable.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 14: Switzerland Giacomo Casanova 1761
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How could you not have heard the hate fill trash that was repeated unnumerable times over a 20 year period.
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I think of the unnumerable tiny beasts that have jangled in that pale forest; of the winged blue jewels of butterfly risen from it to hover on the wild-rustling blades; of that continual music played there by the wind; of the chicory and poppy flowers that have been its lights-o’ love, as it grew tawny and full of life, before the appointed date when it should return to its captivity.
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"But much more serious were the unnumerable allegations and evidence of security force complicity in vigilante activity and massacres, said the HRC.
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