stupendousness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being stupendous.

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  • noun The state, condition, or quality of being stupendous.

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Examples

  • [It] should blend stupendousness with elegance, and be of such magnitude and beauty as to be an object of pride to the American people, and of all who see it.

    A Monument for Obama 2008

  • The fact that your site is so varied in what you post is precisely the reason for its stupendousness word? and anyone that is familiar with the music blog scene knows that yours is one of the best..where else can you find a post about Hanna Barbera classics next to one highlighting the best new hip-hop?

    52 Weeks Later AKA 212 Posts In 365 Days Dart Adams 2008

  • What a small matter it seems now, after our astronomical stupendousness! and yet on my way to you it so far transcended the ordinary matters of my life as the subject you have led me up to transcends this.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • If she lay doggo for a while, she was usually unfindable in the sheer stupendousness of any somewhat larger volume.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • I admit it, but it was not so much the fear of death as the effect of the sudden realization of the stupendousness of the cosmic forces against which I had pitted my puny powers that temporarily unnerved me.

    Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

  • Tongue can never describe, only the soul feels, the awfulness, the vastness, the sublimity, the stupendousness, the wild grandeur of the scene.

    The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

  • The stupendousness of the situation, to which at moments I felt insensible, kept coming over me in waves of comprehension.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • The stupendousness of the silence of absolute solitude!

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • I thanked God that nothing trivial was in my heart to mar the stupendousness of my love, my first real passion for a woman!

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • The stupendousness of the silence of absolute solitude!

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

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