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- noun The
quality of beingcountless .
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- noun a number beyond counting
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Examples
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What he calls the countlessness’ of bluebells never fails to delight Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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What he calls the countlessness’ of bluebells never fails to delight Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Time was, the stars in the sky epitomized the very concept of countlessness.
Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights. Ben Harder 2010
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No wonder the townspeople soon took to calling the soldiers "locusts," not merely out of compliment to the gay colour of their costume, but also as aptly descriptive of their apparent countlessness.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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Thus, too, and thus only, was it possible to give form and order to the chaotic confusion in which the stars seem at first sight to lie, owing to the irregularity of their intervals, the difference in their magnitude, and their apparent countlessness.
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There are a countlessness of kits they can travel engagement that embrace all the materials you want to body type she own solar panels.
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But from its flat roof you had a superb view, from end to end of the vast, towered walls which enclosed the city, and further: across a maze of thoroughfares, a countlessness of dweffings and soaring church domes; along the grand avenue called the Mesé to flowering countryside past the Gate of Charisius, on inward by columns which upbore statuary from the noblest days of Hellas, monasteries and museums and libraries which preserved works by men like Aeschylus and women like Sappho that later centuries would never read, through broad forums pulsing with life, to the Hippodrome and that sprawling splendid complex which was the Imperial Palace.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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