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English
Etymology
From multitudinous + -ly.
Adverb
multitudinously (comparative more multitudinously, superlative most multitudinously)
- In a multitudinous way.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXXII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: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 [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R Osgood and Company, →OCLC, page 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.