Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POP'U-LOUS-NESS
POP'U-LOUS-LYPOR'BEA-GLE, or PRO'BEA-GLE
POP'U-LOUS-NESS, n.
The state of having many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of country. By populousness, in contradistinction to population, is understood the proportion the number bears to the surface of the ground they live on. – Tooke.
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