gianthood

Mr. Quinn, invoking the late poet Brooks: "Today is our giant hour, and nothing less than gianthood will do for all of us in Illinois to confront our awesome challenges."

A Tale of Two Democrats William McGurn 2011

In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

The stranger stood little short of gianthood, and Constans would have run small chance against him as man to man.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

Their fear of growth as a possible start for gianthood might be instinctive!

Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous; -- to be tamed in due time into the compact greatness, not giant-like, but godlike and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

A kind of vacant hugeness, large awkward gianthood, characterises that Norse System; enormous force, as yet altogether untutored, stalking helpless with large uncertain strides.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838