Literary notes about Multifarious (AI summary)
In literature, multifarious is employed to evoke a sense of abundant variety and complexity, whether describing physical spaces, human endeavors, or abstract qualities. Writers may use the term to convey that a single entity—like an apartment or a person's duties—is composed of several distinct functions or aspects [1][2], underscoring the intricate interplay between different elements. At times, the word shapes philosophical or poetic imagery, suggesting that human nature or cultural expressions are not merely diverse but are woven from numerous interrelated threads [3][4]. In this way, multifarious enriches narrative language by highlighting the varied, sometimes contradictory, components that create the fullness of life [5][6].
- The apartment was comfortable enough, although its uses were evidently multifarious,—partly kitchen, and dining-room, and sitting-room.
— from The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree - The duties of the Vettiyān are multifarious.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - What, then, in the vast multifarious field of soul-life were the points of special attraction for Browning?
— from Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford - But indirectly the most different kinds of motives obtain in this way power over the will, and bring about the most multifarious acts of will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - She sees them all, and is witness to their multifarious tortures.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The great world was opening upon me very rapidly, and I was eagerly acquainting myself with its multifarious lessons.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass