Myriad

From the hymn The duteous day now closeth

Now all the heavenly splendour
Breaks forth in starlight tender
From myriad worlds unknown…

Myriad as an adjective?

Oopsadaisy1

Myriad of , is if there are a great number
Myriad, is if there are just a few

Google obviously has more than one answer.

No surely that’s not right is it ?

This is from the full OED:

b. In singular. A countless number of specified things.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxx. 321 Throw a stone into the water, and the myriad of tiny bubbles that are created flash out a brilliant glare like blue theatrical fires.

1961 B. James Night of Kill (1963) ix. 104 The hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had laid dormant in the quiet night.

1987 Observer 20 Sept. 46/4 A myriad of small, specialist software companies have also been spawned in the new ‘sunrise high-tech’ areas.

Myriad of , is if there are a great number
Myriad, is if there are just a few

Google obviously has more than one answer.

I looked it up
If myriad used as a noun…..a myriad of emotions
In which case surely it should be “a myriad of new laws HAS been introduced
Otherwise as an adjective “myriad new laws have been..”