PLETHORA

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

2.
n.

State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.


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