miracle: a marvellous event not ascribable to human or natural agency (inexplicable by the laws of nature) and therefore attributed to the intervention of a supernatural agent, esp. (in Christian belief) God; specifically an act demonstrating control over nature, serving as evidence that the agent is either divine or divinely favoured; a person or thing of more than natural excellence; a surpassing specimen or example of; a remarkable or marvellous phenomenon or event (frequently hyperbole). (Oxford Dictionary).

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⁽*⁾anomie, anomy, anomia (n.): a state or condition of individuals or society characterised by an absence or breakdown of social and legal norms and values, as in the case of an uprooted people; (adj.): anomic. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary).

• mores (pl. n.; pron. moor-raze): a concept developed by William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) to designate those folkways {i.e., habitual group customs, behaviours and fashions} which, if violated, result in extreme punishment; the term comes from the Latin mōs (‘customs’), and although mores are fewer in number than folkways, they are more coercive; negative mores are taboos, usually supported by religious or philosophical sanctions; whereas folkways guide human conduct in the more mundane areas of life, mores tend to control those aspects connected with sex, the family, or religion. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Columbia Electronic Encyclopaedia).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold (viz.: 1. various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated; 2. exhibited at divers times or in various ways). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold (viz.: many; [e.g.]: “The manifold details abound”; myriad, divers, multifarious); multiplex. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold. [origin: the earliest known use of the adjective multiplicitous is in the 1850s; OED’s earliest evidence for multiplicitous is from 1852, in New Orleans Weekly Delta; formed within English, by derivation; etymons: multiplicity, noun + ‑ous, suffix]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold; exhibiting multiplicity; [e.g.]: “‘Some of them are polemical’, our reviewer, Joel Brouwer, said, but, ‘Reed’s best poems conjure up a vertiginous, multiplicious, irresolvable and thrilling world’”. (from “Paperback Row”, Elsa Dixler; October 21, 2007, in New York Times); (synonyms): manifold, multiplicitous; many-kinded. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.; rare): manifold; multiplex; [e.g.]: “The animal [amphisbæna] is not one, but multiplicious, or many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principal parts”. (Sir Thomas Browne, “Vulgar Errors”, iii. 15); “This sense smelling... although sufficiently grand and admirable, (yet) is not so multiplicious as of the eye or ear”. (Rev. William Derham,1657-1735, “Physico-Theology”, iv. 4). [from Latin multiplex (multiplici-); multiplex + -ous]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multipliciously (adv.): in a manifold or multiplex manner. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multiplicity (n.): 1. the state of being multiplex or manifold or various; the condition of being numerous; [e.g.]: “Moreover, as the manifold variation of the parts, so the multiplicity of the use of each part, is very wonderful”. (Nehemiah Grew, 1641-1712, “Cosmologia Sacra”, 1701, i. 5); 2. many of the same kind; a large number; [e.g.]: “Had they discoursed rightly but upon this one principle that God was a being infinitely perfect, they could never have asserted a multiplicity of gods”. (Robert South: “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, vol. II.); “A multiplicity of laws give a judge as much power as a want of law, since he is ever sure to find among the number some to countenance his partiality”. (Oliver Goldsmith, “Reverie at Boar’s-Head Tavern in Eastcheap”, 1841, Essay IV.). [= French multiplicité = Spanish multiplicidad = Portuguese multiplicidade = Italian moltiplicità, from Late Latin multiplicita(t-)s, ‘manifoldness’, from Latin multiplex, ‘manifold’; see multiplex]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multiplicitous (adj.): synonym of multiplicious; [e.g.]: “Finally, this fair is multiplicitous in ways that few others are anymore”. (from “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, Holland Cotter; January 19, 2007 in New York Times‎). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• multifarious (adj.): having or occurring in great variety; diverse; [e.g.]: “Participated in multifarious activities in high school”; (synonyms): multifariousness. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• multitudinous (adj.): 1. very numerous; existing in great numbers; 2. consisting of many parts; 3. populous; crowded; (adv.): multitudinously; (n.): multitudinousness. [from Latin multitūdō, multitūdin-, ‘multitude’, from multus, ‘many’ + -tude, suffix denoting condition, state, or quality; e.g., exactitude]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• multitudinous or multitudinary (adj.): 1. very numerous; 2. (rare): great in extent, variety, etc.; 3. poetic crowded; (adv.): multitudinously; (n.): multitudinousness. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• multitudinous (adj.): 1. existing in great numbers; numerous; 2. comprising many parts or elements; 3. (archaic): crowded; (adv.): multitudinously; (n.): multitudinousness. [1595-1605; from Latin multitūdin-, ‘multitude’ + -ous]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• multitudinous (adj.): too numerous to be counted; [e.g.]: “the multitudinous seas”; (synonyms): innumerable, myriad, countless, infinite, untold, numberless, innumerous, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable, uncounted; [e.g.]: “there were innumerable difficulties”; “a myriad stars shone brightly”; “then countless hours passed by”; “an infinite number of reasons”; “in their untold thousands”; incalculable (not capable of being computed or enumerated); [e.g.]: “those incalculable riches”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• multitudinous (adj.): numerous, many, considerable, countless, legion, infinite, abounding, abundant, myriad, teeming, innumerable, copious, manifold, profuse; [e.g.]: “He was a man of multitudinous talents”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

• multitudinous (adj.): amounting to or consisting of a large, indefinite number; (synonyms): legion, many, myriad, numerous; (idiom): quite a few. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

• multitudinous (adj.): 1. consisting of a multitude or great number; [e.g.]: “Then multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance”. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie”, 1847, ii. 2); 2. of vast extent or number, or of manifold diversity; vast in number or variety, or in both; [e.g.]: “My hand will rather | The multitudinous seas incarnadine, | Making the green one red”. (William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, ii. 2. 62); “One might with equal wisdom seek to whistle the vague multitudinous hum of a forest”. (Edmund Gurney, “Nineteenth Century Magazine”, LXXI. 446); 3†. of or pertaining to the multitude; [e.g.]: “At once pluck out | The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick | The sweet which is their poison”. (William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”, iii. 1. 156); 4. (rare): thronged; crowded; [e.g.]: “The transport of a fierce and monstrous gladness | Spread through the multitudinous streets, fast flying | Upon the wings of fear”. (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822, “The Revolt of Islam” (ex-‘Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City’), 1818, canto xii, page 252). [from Latin as if *multitudinosus, from multitudo (-din-), ‘a multitude’; see multitude]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multitudinously (adv.): in a multitudinous manner; in great number or with great variety. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multitudinary (adj.; rare): multitudinous; manifold. [from Latin as if *multitudinarius, from multitudo (-din-), ‘a multitude’; see multitude]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multitudinousness (n.): the character or state of being multitudinous; [e.g.]: “Nature’s multitudinousness is commanded by a senate of powers”. (James Martineau, “Modern Materialism: Its Attitude Towards Theology”, 1876, p. 38). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multitude (n.): 1. the character of being many; numerousness; also, a great number regarded collectively or as congregated together. Aquinas and others distinguish ‘transcendental multitude’ and ‘material multitude’; but it is difficult to attach any definite conception to ‘transcendental multitude’, which is the opposite of ‘transcendental unity’. And ‘material multitude’ is the multitude of individuals of the same species, an expression which supposes matter to be the principle of individuation; [e.g.]: “And whiles they sought to flye out of the Citie, they wedged themselues with multitude so fast in the gate (which was furthest from the enemie) and the streetes adjoyning, as that three rankes walked one vpon the others heads”. (Samuel Purchas, 1577-1626, “Purchas His Pilgrimage, or, Relations of the World and the Religions”, four editions between 1613 and 1626, p. 420); “Armed freemen scattered over a wide area are deterred from attending the periodic assemblies by cost of travel, by cost of time, by danger, and also by the experience that multitudes of men unprepared and unorganised are helpless in presence of an organised few”. (Herbert Spencer, “The Principles of Sociology”, § 495. page 413);

2. a great number, indefinitely; [e.g.]: “It is a fault in a multitude of preachers that they utterly neglect method in their harangues”. (Dr. Isaac Watts); 

3. a crowd or throng; a gathering or collection of people. According to some ancient legal authorities, it required at least ten to make a multitude; ‘the multitude’: the populace, or the mass of men without reference to an assemblage; [e.g.]: “The hasty multitude | Admiring enter’d; and the work some praise, | And some the architect”. (John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, i. 730); “That great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude”. (Sir Thomas Browne, “Religio Medici” (“The Religion of a Doctor”) , ii. 1); (synonyms): multitude, throng, crowd, swarm, mass, host, legion; a multitude, however great, may be in a space so large as to give each one ample room; a throng or a crowd is generally smaller than a multitude, but is gathered into a close body, a throng being a company that presses together or forward, and a crowd carrying the closeness to uncomfortable physical contact; [e.g.]: “A very subtle argument could not have been communicated to the multitudes that visited the shows”. (Thomas De Quincey, “Secret Societies”, i); “We are enow, yet living in the field, | To smother up the English in our throngs, | If any order might be thought upon”. (William Shakespeare, “Henry V.”, iv. 5. 20); “It crosses here, it crosses there, | Thro’ all that crowd confused and loud”. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Maud, and Other Poems”, 1855, xxvi); ‘multitude of a set’: same as, ‘potency of a set’. [from French multitude = Spanish multitud = Portuguese multitude, multidão = Italian multitudine, moltitudine, from Latin multitudo (-din-), ‘a great number’, ‘a multitude’, ‘a crowd’, in grammar, ‘the plural number’, from multus, Old Latin moltus, ‘much’, ‘many’, apparently originally a past participle; cf. altus, ‘high’, ‘deep’, originally past participle of alere, ‘nourish’, ‘grow’; see altitude, old]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

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• “Of all the chemical compounds scientists have ever contemplated, deoxyribonucleic acid (ᴅɴᴀ) stands out both for engendering hope and inspiring hype. Sure, there are other compounds with claims to serious societal impact. There’s water (ʜ₂ᴏ), of course, and trinitrotoluene (ᴛɴᴛ), nicotine {e.g., nicotinic acid, or niacin, a vitamin of the ʙ complex essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract}, dihydroxyphenylethylamine (dopamine) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin), and various petroleum hydrocarbons, not to mention ethanol. Life wouldn’t be the same without them. But life wouldn’t be life at all without ᴅɴᴀ (deoxyribonucleic acid). Yes, you need water too, but water without ᴅɴᴀ is lifeless. ᴅɴᴀ is life’s master compound, the record of evolution, the stuff of genes which code for life’s multivarious designs. ᴅɴᴀ is the superstar of cellular vitality, the storehouse of genetic information from which all of life’s power emerges”. [curly-bracketed inserts added]. ~ (Editorial, by Tom Siegfried, Editor in Chief; Jul 4, 2009, Science News ᴜsᴀ).

• “Since 1947, the society and state of Pakistan have been caught in a whirlpool of divergent social and political factors. The country is fraught with multivarious problems of a crucial and intricate nature, but ethnicity has emerged as the most significant and delicate issue”. ~ (page 54, “Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan”, by Gulshan Majeed; 2010, Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 1. No. 2).

• “Building on her theory of the paper stage, Rachel Willie’s second chapter analyses play pamphlets which render posthumous dramatic representations of Charles and Cromwell as sites for thinking politics. By applying this theory of the paper stage to these often-overlooked texts, Willie shows how these works range from blunt, partisan screeds to vexed, multivarious treatments of current events”. ~ (Book Review of Rachel Willie’s “Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History”, by Marissa Nicosia; Jan 1, 2017, Philological Quarterly).

• “Michel Houellebecq’s novels are filled with multivarious kinds of established culture-shaping discourses which sometimes are linked to entities customarily immersed in the realm of culture. The novels orchestrate the ascent to dominance of other culture-shaping discourses, connected in many instances with non-state and growingly large-scale agencies”. ~ (from “Cultural Decline, Capitalist Deterritorialisation, and Social Degeneration in Michel Houellebecq’s Fiction”, by Carmen Petcu; Jan 1, 2018, Review of Contemporary Philosophy).

• “Just as with the psychedelic road movie ‘Separado!’, and the elusive Patagonian guitarist Rene Griffiths, it appears there’s no end to the weird and wonderful characters lurking in the multivarious branches of the prodigiously resourceful frontiersman Gruff Rhys’ colourful family tree”. ~ (from “American Quadrilogy”, Daily Post, Conwy, Wales; May 10, 2014; quadrilogy=tetralogy; (n.): a series of four related dramatic, operatic, or literary works; (adj.): tetralogical; (n.): tetralogist).

• “Nonetheless, both recent studies did include multivarious adjustments intended to limit confounders”. ~ (Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 22 Sep. 2021).