Sentence:  Instead of Catholics ' being obliged or even encouraged to beget the greatest possible number of offspring , as <WSD>many</WSD> non-Catholics imagine , the ideal of responsible parenthood is stressed . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number