Literary notes about MYRIAD (AI summary)
Literary authors employ "myriad" to evoke an image of boundless quantity or diversity, whether used adjectivally to modify physical scenes or nominally to denote an exact figure, as in classical contexts. It intensifies descriptions by suggesting a profusion of elements—be it the countless vessels that tease a restless gaze ([1]) or the diffused glow of innumerable lights ([2])—while also conveying abstract concepts such as a host of human emotions or natural wonders ([3], [4]). In some works the term even directly alludes to its traditional meaning of ten thousand ([5], [6]), underscoring its capacity to bridge the concrete with the immeasurable in both nature and human expression.
- Then would he watch no more; no more the sea With myriad vessels, sail by sail, perplex His eyes and mock his longing.
— from New Poems, and Variant Readings by Robert Louis Stevenson - A myriad lights filled the wide channel with diffused radiance.
— from The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance - My voice was lost amid the myriad cavernous echoes it aroused!
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - Those whom the poet makes live have their myriad emotions of joy and terror, of courage and despair, of pleasure and of suffering.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde - Μυριάς, άδος, ἡ, (μυρίος, innumerable) a myriad, ten thousand, Ac. 19.19; indefintely, a vast multitude, Lu. 12.1.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield - Μυρίοι, αι, α, (μυρίος, innumerable) indefinitely, a great number, 1 Co. 4.15; 14.19; specifically, μύριοι, a myriad, ten thousand, Mat. 18.24.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield