Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Monstrous in size or character; huge; prodigious; monstrously perverse, savage, cruel, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
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- adjective obsolete very large;
huge ;vast - adjective obsolete
monstrous in character;inhuman ;atrocious ;fierce
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Yes, smoking kills – but not everyone wants to be saved | Tanya Gold 2011
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.
Norman Horowitz: A Lion Is Chewing my Foot off, Somebody Call a Cop! 2 2009
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She enjoyed her trip to Canada, where she addressed Parliament, throwing in a few words like “ochlocracy” (mob rule) and “immane” (monstrously cruel).
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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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 2008
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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
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars!
Archive 2006-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Quintalate di effetti speciali e un budget immane, “per spingerci a pensare alla quantità di energia che ogni giorni ci arriva dal Sole.”
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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 2003
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.
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He had been brought very close to that immane and nefandous
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
reesetee commented on the word immane
(Archaic) 1. Monstrous in size or strength; huge, vast, enormous, tremendous. 2. Monstrous in character; inhumanly cruel or savage.
February 12, 2008
qms commented on the word immane
Superlatives grow tame and wane.
A boast grown stale is a claim innane.
It's hard to extol
The old Super Bowl
So next year it's The Game Immane.
January 31, 2015