Literary notes about Numerous (AI summary)
The term “numerous” is employed by writers to convey abundance and variety, often serving to paint a vivid picture of the natural world, human endeavors, or abstract concepts. In adventure and historical narratives, it emphasizes the multitude of elements present in a scene—as in descriptions of flocks of birds or armies in battle [1, 2, 3]—while in treatises on subjects like medicine, psychoanalysis, or natural history, it underscores the extensive range of data or phenomena being examined [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, its usage in literary and philosophical texts often lends a sense of overwhelming quantity, helping authors to stress both variety and magnitude in a manner that enriches their narrative or argumentation [7, 8, 9].
- On the other side, on Safety Islet, numerous birds were gravely strutting.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - Blood covers the ground, the blows are more numerous, but victory still hangs in the balance.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal - And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - In a single dream a particularly troublesome element may be represented by "duplicates," that is, by numerous symbols.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the Cambrian system was deposited?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - He wrote much and made numerous valuable investigations on subjects connected with astronomy, physics, and mathematics.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - And Varuna, the adorable lord of waters with his terrible Pasa, 80 and surrounded by numerous aquatic animals, marched slowly with the trident.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - The numerous arts of verisimilitude by which Plato insinuates into the mind of the reader the truth of his narrative have been already referred to.
— from Timaeus by Plato - He was one of the numerous men of ordinary talent.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe