myllion

myllion (plural myllions)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of million
   • 1593, Thomas Nash, Christ's Teares over Jerusalem:

     And a myllion of others, whose eyes the Foules of the valley pecke out, before the seede of saluation can haue any rooting In theyr soules .

   • 1844, Robert Dudley, edited by John Bruce, Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester During His Government of the Low Countries in the Years 1585 and 1586, page 426:

     but the first of that we never received before August, and of that ther ys one 100,000 dewe yet; and of the 300,0000 disbursed, yf ther hath byn paid in money 70,000 to the soldyers hit hath byn a myllion.

   • 1872, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, Trevelyan Papers, Part III, page 74:

     and if it lye in my power I will requite yt as a martiall man ought to doe (which is) with the repaying of his money and a myllion of thankes besides; but trosting not altogether unto hym, I desyre youre favorabell faver this ones to accomplysh my desyres that I may not be one of the basest that fowlose his Lo;

   • 1924, Herodotus, The Famous Hystory of Herodotus, page 81:

     When they were come to the house of Cambyses, Cyrus was received of his parentes, who having knowledge that he was their sonne, kyssed and embraced him a myllion of times, holding themselves the most happy and fortunate people in the world for the sodayne and unhoped recovery of their sweete sonne, whom they never thoughte to have seene alyve.

   • 1992, Peter Earle, The Last Fight of the Revenge, page 65:

     'There might be,' he reported, 'a myllion of gold secretly conveyed aboard.'

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