deluginous

English

Etymology

From deluge +‎ -in- +‎ -ous. The use of the interfix -in- here is irregular. Likely coined by George Darley, who first used the term in 1897.

Adjective

deluginous (comparative more deluginous, superlative most deluginous)

1. (rare) Deluge-like; overwhelmingly abundant. [from late 19th c.]
   • 1897, George Darley, Nepenthe, London: Elkin Mathews, Canto II, page 33:

     Seas to surprise thee, or enthralls
     Earth to deluginous ocean, […]

   • 1929, William Lucas, edited by Reginald Hine, The History Of Hitchin, volume II, London: George Allen & Unwin, page 425:

     The roast beef and plum pudding were only just consumed when, as William Lucas records, ‘ a grand storm of thunder and lightning and a deluginous rain ’ broke up the company and silenced the hired music from the City of London.

   • 1947, Walter Karig, chapter 29, in Zotz!, New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, page 219:

     Evidently the storm up the valley had been deluginous.

   • 2017, Carol Gigliotti, “The Struggle for Compassion and Justice Through Critical Animal Studies” (chapter 10), in Linda Kalof, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, Oxford University Press, page 191:

     A critical approach explicitly committed to a global justice for both animals and humans must first take into account the deluginous amount of scientific research documenting the Sixth Great Extinction⁴ occurring today.

   • 2017 May 18, Branka Arsic, K. L. Evans, editors, Melville’s Philosophies‎^[1], Bloomsbury Publishing:

     In the latter case, the tear is a visual pun on the ersatz integrity of both affect (of cabaret sadness) and form (Kiki’s theatricalization not only of gender, but the rage of time-out-of-joint), whereas in Pierre, the tear’s vivacity is the surprising outcrop of deluginous factitiousness as its own peculiarly queer ontic principle.