immane

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  1. Monstrous in size or character; huge; prodigious; monstrously perverse, savage, cruel, etc. [Archaic.] What immane difference is there between the twenty-fourth of February and commencement of March? Evelyn, Sylva, i. 18. He had been brought very close to that immane and nefandous Burke-and-Hare business which made the blood of civilization run cold in the year 1828. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 44.

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  1. = Portuguese immano = Italian immane, cruel, savage, from Latin immanis, inmanis, huge, vast, cruel, savage, inhuman; perhaps from in- intensive (in-) + magnus, great.
 

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