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plurality 1. Maths a number greater than one 2. US and Canadian the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent 3. another word for pluralism (sense 1) |
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. Most of them intermarry with the natives, and, like the latter, have often a plurality of wives. |
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