immane
Americanadjective
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vast in size; enormous.
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inhumanly cruel.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of immane
1595–1605; < Latin immānis brutal, frightful, enormous, equivalent to im- im- 2 + -mānis, apparently akin to mānus good; see manes
Example Sentences
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars!
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2011
His perspicacity will see without comity, or hilarity, that his character as an author and a gentleman, requires resuscitation, for it is neither immane nor immarcessible.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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