Talk:enormacy

RFV discussion: May 2019

This entry has survived Wiktionary's verification process (permalink).

Please do not re-nominate for verification without comprehensive reasons for doing so.

---

enormacy

Appears in some word lists. DTLHS (talk) 20:55, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Appears to just squeak in with 3 cites on Google Books. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 20:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

It is unclear whether "Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English" is quoting actual usage or making up examples. DTLHS (talk) 21:00, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Well, yes, they are probably made up (though they could be examples he took from somewhere), but they are still words used in context, so not mentions. Quotes from a novel are "made up" after all.-Sonofcawdrey (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Definition should be split into two, apparently. Being huge (enormous) is not the same as enormity (terribleness of crime etc.): they are currently both written on the same sense line though. Equinox ◑ 21:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, possibly. But, actually in the cite "It was this crime which was several days old, but the enormacy of which seemed only to be just appreciated" it is ambiguous. It could mean enormity, or greatness. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

OK, cited now. Deleted ambiguous cite, and changed def to suit.-Sonofcawdrey (talk) 22:25, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Hartwell states that this word is being misused for either enormousness or enormity, with usexes covering both senses. Shouldn’t we then also cover both senses?  --Lambiam 13:22, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

I only found 2 cites for the "enormity" sense, unless we are content with quoting from Hartwell (which I think in okay, but DTLHS does not - see above), or someone can find a third.-Sonofcawdrey (talk) 15:19, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Which ones did you find? If you add them to the Citations:enormacy, this may prevent duplication of effort.  --Lambiam 00:08, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 02:11, 29 May 2019 (UTC)