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Definition of Immane
1. a. Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
Definition of Immane
1. Adjective. (obsolete) very large; huge; vast ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immane
1. great in size [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immane
Literary usage of Immane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ovid: Selected Works, with Notes and Vocabulary by Ovid (1900)
"... immane loquendi.' BOOK VI • [Minerva, hearing this story of the punishment
which the Muses had inflicted upon the Pierides for daring to challenge them ..."
2. Cornelii Taciti historiarum libri qui supersunt: The histories of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus (1891)
"Et Flavianus exercitus immane quantum 5 animo exitium Valentis ut finem belli
accepit. ... immane quantum. An adverbial expression, like the Greek ..."
3. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1815)
"... at least whilst under the superintendence of its lats governor Aris, the immane
designs of that excellent man were in a great degree frustrated. ..."
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