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plenitude
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plen·i·tude  (pln-td, -tyd)
n.
1. An ample amount or quantity; an abundance: a region blessed with a plenitude of natural resources.
2. The condition of being full, ample, or complete.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin plnitd, from plnus, full; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

pleni·tudi·nous (-tdn-s, -tyd-) adj.

plenitude [ˈplɛnɪˌtjuːd]
n
1. abundance; copiousness
2. the condition of being full or complete
[via Old French from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus full]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.plenitude - a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
abundance, copiousness, teemingness - the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

plenitude
noun
1. completeness, fullness, amplitude, repletion The music brought him a feeling of plenitude and freedom.
2. abundance, wealth, excess, bounty, plenty, plethora, profusion, cornucopia, copiousness, plenteousness a book with a plenitude of pictures
Translations
plenitude [ˈplenɪtjuːd] Nplenitud f
plenitude
n (liter)Fülle f


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A culture of liberty would indeed beget the raucous, plenitudinous hodgepodge McCarthy speaks of.
He holds that utopianism is a vestige of what the philosopher Martin Heidegger calls "onto-theological thought," where the wish for a plenitudinous realm of unfettered life--a kind of Eden of absolute epistemological and ontological bliss--presupposes a transcendent position that is unreachable for human thought.
This is not to say that Erasmus's scriptural renovation fails to remove from the Vulgate many of its spurious accretions, nor that the art of discourse is fruitless for Erasmus, simply that the notion of an original text promised by a philological renovation according to the humanist goal of adfontes remains elusive, just as the plenitudinous meaning of the Gospel remains inexpressible through the application of a strictly literal hermeneutics.
 
 
 
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