Meanings of plural number in English

The plural number caused the captain to toss me a contemptuous look.

He sends out His servants, in the plural number.

Did I understand you to use the plural number?

God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.

But it is out of keeping to address one individual in the plural number, especially an inferior.

I forget how many there were of them, but they were then pretty far into the plural number.

It has just done it with its Pluriel which, as the name implies, means a plural number of profiles.

Nouns in the plural number-

The statements and illustrations of course refer to such verbs as have separate forms for singular and plural number.

The word for Creator is in the plural number, according to the Hebrew idiom, which thereby expresses supremacy or excellence.

To be brief, he is a Heteroclite, for he wants the plural number, having only the single quality of words.

He denied the charge as being made in the plural number, and declared that his only low co-reveller was Roger Scatcherd.

Lady Maresfield had been prepared for the plural number, and she was a woman whom it took many plurals to disconcert.

So then if God be predicated thrice of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the threefold predication does not result in plural number.

Proper nouns admit of the plural number; as, there are sixty-four John Smiths in New-York, twenty Arnolds in Providence, and fifteen Davises in Boston.

In some of the above-cited examples, Porphyry, speaking of Saint Matthew, calls him your Evangelist; he also uses the term evangelists in the plural number.