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  • 41immensity — noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑enormousness, ↑grandness, ↑greatness, ↑immenseness, ↑sizeableness, ↑vastness, ↑wideness …

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  • 42sizeableness — noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number • Syn: ↑enormousness, ↑grandness, ↑greatness, ↑immenseness, ↑immensity, ↑vastness, ↑wideness • Derivationally related forms …

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  • 43wideness — noun 1. the property of being wide; having great width • Syn: ↑broadness • Ant: ↑narrowness • Derivationally related forms: ↑broad (for: ↑broadness), ↑ …

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  • 44SEA OF THE TALMUD — SEA OF THE TALMUD, a post talmudic expression indicating the vastness of the Talmud, the innumerable subjects it deals with, and its all embracing character. Although it is not found in the Talmud itself, the comparison between the vastness of… …

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  • 45Adumbrate — Ad*um brate, v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.] [1913 Webster] 1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. [1913 Webster] Both in the vastness and the richness… …

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  • 46Alliteration — Al*lit er*a tion, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See {Letter}.] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: [1913 Webster] Behemoth,… …

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  • 47Amaze — A*maze , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amazing}.] [Pref. a + maze.] 1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To confound, as by fear, wonder,… …

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  • 48Amazed — Amaze A*maze , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amazing}.] [Pref. a + maze.] 1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To confound, as by fear,… …

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  • 49Amazing — Amaze A*maze , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amazing}.] [Pref. a + maze.] 1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To confound, as by fear,… …

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  • 50At full sea — Sea Sea (s[=e]), n. [OE. see, AS. s[=ae]; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. s[=e]o, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. s[ o], Sw. sj[ o], Icel. s[ae]r, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. [root]151a.] 1. One of the larger bodies of salt water,… …

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