multitudinously

English

Etymology

multitudinous +‎ -ly

Adverb

multitudinously (comparative more multitudinously, superlative most multitudinously)

  1. In a multitudinous way.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 32,
      Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised.
    • 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., Chapter 35, p. 379,
      When one makes his first voyage in a ship, it is an experience which multitudinously bristles with striking novelties; novelties which are in such sharp contrast with all this person’s former experiences that they take a seemingly deathless grip upon his imagination and memory.
    • 1922, H. G. Wells, A Short History of the World, London: Cassell, Chapter 52, p. 303,
      […] human affairs are multitudinously complex […]
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