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noun

Multifariousness n.

Multiplied diversity.

(Law) The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them.

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Etymology of 'Multifariousness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Multifariousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... of psychological analysis. Marmontel—doing, like other second-rate talents, almost more useful work than his betters—rescues the conte from the "demi-rep" condition into which it had fallen, and, owing to the multifariousness of his examples, does not entirely subjugate it even to honest purpose; while Bernardin de Saint-Pierre carries the suggestions of Rousseau still further in the invaluable department of description. No one, except on the small scale, is great in plot; no one produces a really individual ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities. The men have been carelessly indifferent to much of this civic housekeeping, as they have always been indifferent to the details of the household.... The very multifariousness and complexity of a city government demand the help of minds accustomed to detail and variety of work, to a sense of obligation for the health and welfare of young children and to a responsibility for the cleanliness and comfort of other people. ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... only those which have a bearing on his subject. The lawyer searches out that part of the legal tradition which is applicable to his own case. Without some lead or clue we should lose ourselves in the multifariousness of transmitted knowledge at ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... with the enterprise of those eager philosophers who are so strenuously impressed with the truth of some ultimate monistic unification, as to be unwilling to concede the multifariousness of existence—who decline to speak of mind and matter, or of body and spirit, or of God and the world, as in any sense separate entities—who stigmatise as dualistic anything which does not manifestly and consciously strain after an ultimate monistic view—and who then, ...

— Life and Matter - A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' • Oliver Lodge