Citations:overnumerousness


 * 1890, Ellery Sedgwick [ed.], Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (Frank Leslie Publishing House), volume 29, page 347
 * Once renowned for its newspapers, in the days when “Old Father Ritchie,” from his tripod of the Enquirer, ruled the Democratic party of the State with a sharp pen, the city has now only three small newspapers, which are not abreast with its general progress or that of the State, chiefly because they do not receive sufficient patronage, owing to the overnumerousness of the negro population, and the fact that the citizens are too closely absorbed in business to interest themselves much in politics.
 * 2007, Michael C. Finke and Julie W. De Sherbinin [eds.], Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon (Slavica; ISBN 0893573450, 9780893573454), page 46
 * His family name is as long as the word overnumerousness and derives from a songless Latin word referring to one of the countless human virtues.
 * 2010 July 2nd, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd (talkbackTHAMES, Channel 4), series 4, episode 2: “The Final Countdown”, 20:48–21:06
 * Moss as “Word”: I shall give my answer, if I may, in the form of a joke. “Prime”: This is most irregular… Moss as “Word”: What do you call Negative One, sitting alone, in an empty room? “Prime”: I don’t know; what do you call Negative One, sitting alone, in an empty room? Moss as “Word”: Overnumerousness!