"overmultitude" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: overmultitudes [plural]
Etymology: From over- + multitude. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|multitude}} over- + multitude Head templates: {{en-noun}} overmultitude (plural overmultitudes)
  1. An large excess in numbers.
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          "text": "For when Agesilaus counselled him to trye it by battell as soone as he could, and not to prolonge this warre against ignoraunt men that had no skill to fight, but yet for their overmultitude, might intrenche him rounde about, and prevent him in divers thinges: then he beganne to feare and suspect him more, and thereuppon retyred into a great citie well walled about, and of great strength.",
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