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A crowd so large nobody bothers counting, including God.
means A great number of people or things gathered or considered together — so many that you stop trying to pin down the exact figure.
from From Latin multitudo, built from multus meaning 'much, many,' plus the abstract noun-forming suffix -tudo (the same pattern you see in 'solitude' or 'magnitude'). It passed into English through Old French multitude around the 14th century, arriving already carrying its biblical weight — 'multitude' shows up again and again in scripture translations describing crowds, nations, and sins too numerous to tally.
- biblical usage
- loved by the KJV, rarely by casual speakers
- etymology
- from Latin multus, meaning simply many
- sneaky function
- lets you avoid giving an actual number