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† iˈmmanity Obs.
[ad. L. immānitās, f. immānis immane. Cf. F. immanité (16th c.).]
The quality of being immane.
1. Hugeness; monstrosity, enormity.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Immanitie, beastlie crueltie, or hugenesse and greatnes. 1663Cowley Ess. Verse & Prose, Liberty (1688) 81 If the immanity of so many Vices had not been covered and disguised. 1667Poole Dial. betw. Protest. & Papist (1735) 45 The Immanity of their Blasphemies against God.
2. Monstrous cruelty; atrocious savagery.
1557North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. 115 a/1 To shewe more their immanitie..they dranke the bloude of him that was lately alyue. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 649 Not to be accounted inhumanity, but rather immanity and beastly cruelty. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §6 (1622) 207 Those notable immanities, which Dolabella exercised, vpon the body of Trebonius. 1699Bentley Phal. xvi. 512 Phalaris the Tyrant came to that degree of Cruelty and Immanity, that he devour'd sucking Children. |