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Bigness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Size. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head."

  2. 2
    the property of having a relatively great size wordnet
  3. 3
    The characteristic of being big. countable, uncountable

    "It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words."

Etymology

From Middle English bignesse (“size”), equivalent to big + -ness.

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