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PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
     2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the testator, died without children, and he died leaving one child, the devise would not take effect. See Dig. 50, 16, 148; Id. 35, 1, 101, 1; Id. 3 1, 17, 4 Code, 6, 49, 6, 2; Shelf. on L 559, 589. See Singular.



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59) While by no means unique to China and far from enjoying a monopoly in the public sphere, these constraints on the pluralization of identity amount to a considerable force of inertia.
Citizen movements and China's public intellectuals in the Hu-Wen Era by Kelly, David / Pacific Affairs
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Accordingly, we should not predict that globalization and pluralization will generate a wholly secular world.
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