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colluvies

noun as in hodge-podge

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That such a colluvies gentium should claim to be the heirs of Septs which occupied the land "Ere the emerald gem of the Western world Had been set in the crown of a stranger," is simply a proof of profound ignorance of history.

Add to all this the colluvies of false philosophies of every land, and of every date.

Via mortis, dura laborum Colluvies, vita est hominis via longa doloris Perpetui.

Colluvies, ko-lū′vi-ēs., n. filth: a rabble.

Marlborough was at the head of 110,000 men, and although his force was composed of a heterogeneous mixture of the troops of different nations, yet, like the colluvies omnium gentium which followed the standards of Hannibal, it was held together by the firm bond of military success, and inspired with unbounded confidence, founded on experience, in the resources and capacity of its chief.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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