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English
Etymology
Alteration of Latin plethora after + -y.
Noun
plethory (plural plethories)
- (medicine, now archaic) A plethora.
1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “.] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1654, →OCLC:[T]he appetite falls down like a horseleech, when it is ready to burst with putrefaction and an unwholesome plethory […] .
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus:The disease of the state is a plethory, / Who so fit to reduce it as I?
- (obsolete) A plethora; a dangerous excess of something.
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 921:‘It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty.’