Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Monstrous in size or character; huge; prodigious; monstrously perverse, savage, cruel, etc.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete very large; huge; vast
- adj. obsolete monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
Etymologies
- Latin immanis. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars – strangling a leftwing novelist in her Camden flat, and then coming back for me.”
The Guardian: Yes, smoking kills – but not everyone wants to be saved | Tanya Gold
“She enjoyed her trip to Canada, where she addressed Parliament, throwing in a few words like “ochlocracy” (mob rule) and “immane” (monstrously cruel).”
“There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars!”
Julie Fefferman: Gross to Green: Utilizing the Media for Positive Propaganda
“In the afternoon, Ulinish carried us in his boat to an island possessed by him, where we saw an immense cave, much more deserving the title of antrum immane than that of the Sybil described by”
“There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars!”
“Quintalate di effetti speciali e un budget immane, “per spingerci a pensare alla quantità di energia che ogni giorni ci arriva dal Sole.””
“Nam post Insulam Vaigats et Noua Zembla continu� ingens sequitur Sinus, quem ab ortu Tabin immane promontorium complectitur.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.”
“He had been brought very close to that immane and nefandous”
“In the afternoon, Ulinish carried us in his boat to an island possessed by him, where we saw an immense cave, much more deserving the title of antrum immane [648] than that of the Sybil described by Virgil, which I likewise have visited.”
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Cepstrums
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reesetee (Archaic) 1. Monstrous in size or strength; huge, vast, enormous, tremendous. 2. Monstrous in character; inhumanly cruel or savage. Feb 12, 2008