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bigness|ˈbɪgnɪs|
[f. big a. + -ness.]
1. Large size or bulk.
1494Fabyan v. cxxxi. 114 Most precious stones of a great bygnesse and value. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxviii. viii. 197 A poynted dyamonde of mervaylous bygnes. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. i. (1668) 4 Not grosse with much flesh but with the bignesse of his bones. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 381 Bigness with the bulk of mankind is the nearest synonym for greatness. 1878Tait & Stewart Unseen Univ. ii. §85 But we must not be terrified at mere bigness.
b. fig. Haughtiness, pompousness, swagger.
1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 57 The worldly bigness and downbearing Dominion of a tyrannical Clergy. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. i. 15 A puffed and uneasy pomp, a bigness instead of greatness.
2. Size, magnitude, bulk (large or small).
1529Rastell Pastyme (1811) 105 They be of one bygnes. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 1052 This pendant world, in bigness as a Starr. 1779Johnson Blake Wks. IV. 375 Seven forts with cannon proportioned to the bigness. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxix. 78 The bigness of a large pea. |