Plethory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Plethory is a noun meaning (medicine, now archaic) A plethora.
Meaning
(medicine, now archaic) A plethora.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A plethora; a dangerous excess of something.
Example Sentences
The disease of the state is a plethory, / Who so fit to reduce it as I?
‘It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty.’
[T]he appetite falls down like a horseleech, when it is ready to burst with putrefaction and an unwholesome plethory […].
Word Forms
- plethories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plethrum, pleiomery, pleonast, plurisie, plethron, plethymography.
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