Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stupendous.
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- adjective obsolete
Stupendous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beautful, amazing post and what a stupend-tabulous mother you had!
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They suffer polygamy, circumcision, stupend fastings, divorce as they will themselves, &c., and as the papists call on the Virgin Mary, so do they on Thomas Didymus before Christ.
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Tully terms them, madness of villages, stupend structures; as those
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Who can relate the glorious splendour, and stupend magnificence, the sumptuous building of Diana at Ephesus, Jupiter
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In time of sleep this faculty is free, and many times conceive strange, stupend, absurd shapes, as in sick men we commonly observe.
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It is a wonder to read of those [2909] stupend aqueducts, and infinite cost hath been bestowed in Rome of old, Constantinople, Carthage,
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Repentance will effect prodigious cures, make a stupend metamorphosis.
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The Romans had their public baths very sumptuous and stupend, as those of Antoninus and
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The last kind of madness or melancholy, is that demoniacal (if I may so call it) obsession or possession of devils, which Platerus and others would have to be preternatural: stupend things are said of them, their actions, gestures, contortions, fasting, prophesying, speaking languages they were never taught, &c.
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Beautful, amazing post and what a stupend-tabulous mother you had!
Big Fish 2006
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