Bigness

noun

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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."

Synonyms

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largenessamplitudeareabodybreadthbulk

Example

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"And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded."

Etymology

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

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