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The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
  2. n. The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
  3. n. a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
  4. n. the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements
  5. n. the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
  6. 1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. 2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]
  7. The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than oneecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]
  8. n:100 n. a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated n. the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements n. the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time