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Word verification: ingent, what I DON'T want to do with this cake
Hey Nurse, Slip Me Some Tongue! Jen 2009
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Also a bill to appropriate money for the support of ingent families of soldiers who may be in the public service, and for other purposes.
Journal of the Senate of the State of Georgia, at the Annual Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in Milledgeville, the Seat of Government, in 1863. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1863
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'Ponderyng, erpēdyng, and revolutying with my self your ingent affabilitee, and ingenious capacitee, for mundane affaires: I cannot but celebrate and extolle your magnificall dexteritee, above all other.
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Hac neque confilii, neque degener ingent, fecutus i£quis adurges mfibus volantem.
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
biocon commented on the word ingent
Ingent = immense, very great (OED).
January 14, 2012