amassment
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devoted, fruitless, vast
AMASSMENT + NOUN
imprisonment
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noun
The act of amassing.
All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:
That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).
Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.
[Phancy, i.e. imagination, is] but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, praejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite Impostures;
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3All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
Wiktionary1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the
Wiktionary[...] Curmudgeons among Books, are as discoverable as those among Bags; and [...] they may lose more Honour and Credit, than gain Wisdom or Happiness, by the fruitless Amassment and Imprisonment of ei
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