Sentence:  <WSD>Many</WSD> potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized . 
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