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multiferous

adjective

  1. Bearing or producing much or many; fruitful.

    Thus, in the present digressive and droll performance, [for Peter is ever digressive as well as diverting,] every thing finds a place that seems, in random succession, to have occureed to the multiferous mind of the playful poet, when he sat down to write .

  2. Many and varied; multifarious.

    There is, notwithstanding, a sort of Manicheism in genius, as there is the antinomy in science, as there are light and shade in art, as there are opposite and similarly appearing movements in life, as there are diverse and simultaneous springs in the human conscience, as there are attraction and repulsion in the sidereal worlds, as there are multiferous and heterogeneous forces that resolve themselves into astonishing antithetic duality .

Where it comes from

From Latin multifer, from multus (“much, many”) + ferre (“to bear”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry multiferous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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