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giantlike, a.|ˈdʒaɪəntlaɪk|
[f. giant n. + like.]
Resembling a giant or what pertains to a giant; gigantic.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lvi, Heathnish persons are puffed up with Giant-lyke presumptuousnes. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 197 Good master Mustard seede..that same cowardly gyant-like Oxe beefe hath deuoured many a gentleman of your house. 1618Bolton Florus (1636) 201 Those Gyantlike bodies..were..the fairer mark for a sword, or dart to hit. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 625 Winds have..a giant-like force. a1716South Serm. (1737) I. vi. 231 All their giant-like objections against Christian religion shall presently vanish and quit the field. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. 28 The duomo..with its giant-like procession of columns, is singularly beautiful. 1878L. P. Meredith Teeth 188 A person almost giantlike in strength and stature may faint at the thoughts of the operation. |