Literary notes about multitudinous (AI summary)
The term “multitudinous” lends a poetic and expansive quality to literature by conjuring images of vast, overwhelming quantities or intricate arrays. Authors apply it to describe everything from the cascading hues of nature and the bustling complexities of urban life ([1], [2], [3]) to the immeasurable forces of emotion and thought ([4], [5]). Its use underscores both literal and metaphorical abundance, as seen when Shakespeare transforms the sea into a blood-red spectacle ([6]) or when contemporary writers evoke the ceaseless hum of a vibrant world ([7]). In every instance, "multitudinous" enriches the text by highlighting layers of detail and myriad elements that work together to create a more immersive experience ([8], [9]).
- Down from the terrace stretched the great garden, where multitudinous lilies flashed in the first light with iridescent dew.
— from The Decadent: Being the Gospel of Inaction
Wherein Are Set Forth in Romance Form Certain Reflections Touching the Curious Characteristics of These Ultimate Years, and the Divers Causes Thereof by Ralph Adams Cram - Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.
— from The call of the wild by Jack London - The shop windows were laden with the treasures of the world, buyers were plentiful, promenaders multitudinous.
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim - If it is multitudinous, it must require a multitude of thoughts to think it.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Every now and then, the wind seemed to bear the distant multitudinous sound nearer; and yet there was no wind!
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - In that empty space arose a multitudinous shout of dismay and surprise.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - A chaos of multitudinous impressions rains in from all sides at all hours.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana