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"Enormity" is imprecisely used to mean "great size," as in: it is difficult to comprehend the enormity of the continent, but the original and preferred meaning is 'extreme wickedness,' as in: the enormity of the mass murders.
President-Elect Barack Obama's First Press Conference: Promises To "Act Swiftly" On Economy 2009
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[Oct. 13th, 2005 | 02: 22 pm] "Enormity" used to mean "monstrous evil".
The enormity! amuchmoreexotic 2005
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"Enormity," referring to size, rather than something terrible (e.g. "the enormity of the crime").
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"Enormity" in its narrow sense is dead even as the word seems to grow more popular.
The Two Malcontents 2009
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"'Enormity,'" says the Chicago Tribune stylebook, "refers to great wickedness or outrageousness: the enormity of the crime.
The Two Malcontents 2009
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Enormity was once the sign of the Best Present Ever, and usually meant something elaborately staged behind a blister pack, each item cruelly tied down by wires twisted into place by Chinese robots.
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Such action will not restore the Incalculable Damage done to this Great Man's Reputation however it may cause his Detractors to realize the Enormity of their Actions.
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(They have been posthumously collected in "Alpha and Omega" and "The Age of Enormity.")
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An Age of Enormity 1962, a posthumous volume of his reviews, contains some of the best critical prose from the forties and fifties.
Isaac Rosenfeld 2009
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An Age of Enormity 1962, a posthumous volume of his reviews, contains some of the best critical prose from the forties and fifties.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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