gigmanity

“No sooner had Froude spoken than, as Mr.W. S. Lilly has pointed out, "gigmanity" was up in arms, and was speedily joined by the brougham and tandem people.”

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another!”

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

“gigmanity" of the postmaster was all at stake, -- his whole influence in the mail-gig of Portree; and so he argued, and threatened withal, and, what was the more serious part of the business, the person he had given the seat to had taken possession of the gig; and so we had to compound the matter by carrying a passenger additional.”

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

“He kept a gig,' was the reply, which brought the word 'gigmanity' into our language. [”

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends

“Henry Taylor draws off into the upper regions of gigmanity.”

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“If he is rich enough to keep his own carriage, or if he will pay the extra price of a vehicle not vulgarized by being on the numbered list, he may drive anywhere that his Grace or his Lordship does, and perhaps have a mean sense of satisfaction at finding himself in the charmed circle of exclusive "gigmanity.”

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

“The same unquenchable, almost frightfully unresting spirit of endeavor, directed (woe is me!) to the making of money, or money's worth; namely, food finer and finer, and gigmanic renown higher and higher: nay, must not your gigmanity be a”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

“(woe is me!) to the making of money, or money's worth; namely, food finer and finer, and gigmanic renown higher and higher: nay, must not your gigmanity be a purse-gigmanity, some half-shade worse than a purse-and-pedigree one?”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I