immane
adj/ɪˈmeɪn/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin immānis.
1
Archaic Very large; huge; vast.
- There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):
- […] if this gentleman could have been purged of an immane conceit of himself and of his own worth, and made clean from his disaffection to the crown and monarchy of England, which always warped his engagements towards the sectarian and republican model, and made him restless[…]1808, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North, […] , page 98:
2
Archaic Monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
- so immane a man[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
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