imposingness

As we approached the tomb it grew in imposingness.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Forming a collective existence without assignable beginning or end, it appeals to that feeling of the infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature, and which seems necessary to the imposingness of all our highest conceptions.

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

Percy looked down at her; all his imposingness, all his air of importance, and his occasional tinge of pompousness, had entirely vanished.

Bird of Paradise Ada Leverson 1897

A few steps onward and we were in sight of the source, and no words can convey its imposingness, or the sense of contrast forced upon the mind -- the pitchy, ebon cavern from which flashes the river in silvery whiteness, tumbling in a dozen cascades down glistening black rocks, and across pebbly beds, and along gold-green pastures.

Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

The white silk and diamonds -- it may seem strange, but she did wear diamonds on her neck, in her ears, in her hair -- might have something to do with the new imposingness of her beauty, which flashed on him as more unquestionable if not more thoroughly satisfactory than when he had first seen her at the gaming-table.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

It ascends into the unknown recesses of the past, embraces the manifold present, and descends into the indefinite and unforeseeable future, forming a collective Existence without assignable beginning or end, it appeals to that feeling of the Infinite, which is deeply rooted in human nature, and which seems necessary to the imposingness of all our highest conceptions.

Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839

-- as women do think when one of their artifices of evasion with a lover, or the trick of imposingness, has apparently been subduing him.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

-- as women do think when one of their artifices of evasion with a lover, or the trick of imposingness, has apparently been subduing him.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

-- as women do think when one of their artifices of evasion with a lover, or the trick of imposingness, has apparently been subduing him.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868