immane

American  

[ih-meyn] / ɪˈmeɪn /

adjective

Archaic.

1. vast in size; enormous.

2. inhumanly cruel.

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Other Word Forms

• immanely adverb
• immaneness noun

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

There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars!

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2011

"Bellum atrox, multiplex, immane, pertinax, cui simile nulla usquam narrat antiquitas."

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

Nam post Insulam Vaigats et Noua Zembla continuò ingens sequitur Sinus, quem ab ortu Tabin immane promontorium complectitur.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard

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

Tollunt in numerum fera brachia, vique feruntur Per fluctus: sonuere viae clamore secundo: Et picea de puppe fremens immane bubulcus Invocat exitium cunctis, et verbera rapto Stipite defessis onerat graviora caballis.

From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart