Sentence:  This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; and More was far too well read not to have come across it in one or <WSD>several</WSD> of the forms thus given it . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many