enormous

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From Latin ēnormis.

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enormous (comparative more enormous, superlative most enormous)

  1. (obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 105:
      all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind [...].
  2. (obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
      how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.
  3. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

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