Plural form used as quality/intensity, but not for meaning "many".

From: "Lior" <lior.gradstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Feb 2006 05:47:05 -0800

Hello,

I'm looking for references/languages that have in their grammar a
plural pattern meaning quality/intensity (plural of quality) but not
necessarily "several/many". I know there are discussions about plurals
in biblical hebrew on this topic, but are there any other language
(old, extinct or modern) that may use the plurals like this?

Thanks,
Lior

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