moliminous

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The Earl dug coal-mines, and constructed "a moliminous rampier for a harbour."

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  1. Made with great effort or endeavor.
  2. 2. Of grave import; momentous. Prophesies of so vast and moliminous concernment to the world. Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 281.

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  • The Earl dug coal-mines, and constructed "a moliminous rampier for a harbour." —  Adventures Among Books
  • A "moliminous rampier" is a choice phrase, and may be envied by novelists who aim at distinction of style. —  Adventures Among Books
  • Glenluce as a "moliminous rampier" against irreligion. —  Adventures Among Books
  • His hallucination took him through the drenching storms of heavy rains and again to the heavily billboarded world of downtown opulence: iridescent Isuzu Ascender, its back wheels aired above a city, front wheels ascending toward the fiery black nothingness of space, ascend, it says, ascend, as if it, a thing, were the portal to creation, the why, the reason of it all, ascend; Compaq Computers, don't be left behind, don't, easy just a don't; large, sprawling cursory sentences of lumination on these black moliminous rectangles towering above all the tiny traffic, tiny cars and tinier lives, advertising self-help and get-rich seminars; a more conventional but gigantic billboard placed near a skyscraper lit like stage lights on an actress, a gigantic face of a beautiful Chinese Thai with clean and white Chinese skin that stayed pimpleless with Johnson and Johnson's Clean and Clear. —  Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
 

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  1. from Latin molīmen (-min-), great effort, + -ous.
 

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