Multitude vs Apportionment - What's the difference?
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A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
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The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
* Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment .
(lb) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
(lb) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
Multitude is a related term of apportionment.
As nouns the difference between multitude and apportionment
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while apportionment is the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.multitude
English
(wikipedia multitude)Noun
(en noun)- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.