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immane, a. arch.|ɪˈmeɪn|
[ad. L. immānis monstrous, huge, savage, f. im- (im-2) + mānus hand.]
1. Monstrous in size or strength; huge, vast, enormous, tremendous.
1615Chapman Odyss. ix. 268 A man in shape immane, and monsterous. 1679Evelyn Sylva xvi. (ed. 3) 71 What immane difference then is there between the twenty fourth of Feb. and commencement of March? a1734North Lives I. 101 An immane conceit of himself and of his own worth. 1835Hogg in Fraser's Mag. XI. 516 So wild, unearthly, and immane.
2. Monstrous in character; inhumanly cruel or savage.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 38 To cutte his bodie in peeces..is a thing verie immane. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 12 The immane cruelty of Hieron, the Tyrant of that City. c1860O. W. Holmes in Pages fr. Old Vol. Life (1891) 44 That immane and nefandous Burke-and-Hare business.
Hence iˈmmanely adv., hugely, monstrously, inhumanly; iˈmmaneness (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 27 Christ..mercilesly hoysed vp, immanely pitched down with the crosse. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. (1851) 23 A man..Valiant, Liberal, and fair of Aspect, but immanely Cruell. |