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Definition of Colossally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colossally
Literary usage of Colossally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Symbols: Setting Forth the True Reason for Symbolism & Ritual by Godfrey Blount (1905)
"Jesus of Nazareth was, as far as our poor knowledge goes, the most colossally
wise person the world has ever seen or dreamed of, ..."
2. Human Nature: A Monthly Record of Zoistic Science and Intelligence (1867)
"... it,—an age of knowledge, not of faith; and so, while colossally great and
powerful on the merely material, proportionately weak on the spiritual plane. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"The town is colossally rich; it is ever changing; it yearns for distinction.
The newcomers who pour in from the wheat lands want more than mere money ..."
4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"It was, therefore, a colossally ignorant and unimaginative empire. It foresaw
nothing. It had no strategic foresight, because it was blankly ignorant of ..."
5. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"I still say there is a colossally nice simplicity about it, and that the change
of tonality is utterly agreeable. There are things to be taken from Kara in ..."
6. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"The temptation and the downfall of a whole town was a colossal idea, a sardonic
idea, and it is colossally and sardonically worked out. ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... or sit their sculptured horses colossally, Vou LXH.—No. 870.—35 ive. Delightful is
hardly the word for life at the huge and expensive but well- ..."
8. Publication by American-Hellenic Society (1918)
"... had received these regions as well as all the Serbian possessions in Macedonia,
would have become colossally powerful and dangerous to our existence. ..."
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