Hence: Notorious, manifest, downright, thorough-paced, unmitigated. Extended from thief to traitor, knave, rebel, coward, usurer; after 1575…

Used as an intensive with nouns of reproachful sense: Thoroughgoing, ‘unmitigated’: see arrant, adj. 3a 3b.

spec. Qualifying an unfavourable appellation of a person: arrant, thorough, unmitigated.

As an intensifier: despicable, contemptible; (in weakened sense) complete, utter.

Unparalleled, utter, arrant; huge, mighty (cf. almighty, adj. 2a). Frequently humorous. Obsolete.

Humorously or blunderingly used for incarnate (here = ‘arrant’: see incarnate, adj. 1, note).

Scottish. Complete, out-and-out, thoroughgoing. Only in run devil. Obsolete.

Clothed or invested with flesh; embodied in flesh; in a human (or animal) bodily form. Of a person, soul, or spirit. (Sometimes construed as past…

Senselessly discursive or talkative, babbling; esp. of a person, used chiefly as an intensive adjective, with the meaning ‘consummate’ (frequently in…