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Definition of Gigantically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigantically
Literary usage of Gigantically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstracts of Papers Read Before the Society: Together with the Annual Report by Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton (1898)
"... of the gigantically great? On a previous occasion he had the pleasure of
dwelling upon the microscope and its wonderful revelations of things that were ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Middleton, The Black Book. gigantically (jï-gan'ti-kal-i), adv. In a gigantic
manner. Not doubting but it will be made to appear that though this monster, ..."
3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Edwin Booth, Henry L Hinton (1867)
"Fancy Portia, thus gigantically proportioned, led in by "two maids, to keep her
from falling." The following cut, which is from a very rare book on costume, ..."
4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... protection, commercial wars, &c., these children of the true manufacturing
period, increase gigantically during the infancy of Modern Industry. ..."
5. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"intermingle so gigantically that man is all but crushed between the two — or else
raised to titanic measures by the spectacle of their struggle. ..."
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