Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The race of giants; giants collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The race of giants.
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- noun archaic The
race ofgiants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Food of the Gods was let loose to wreak its powers of giantry upon the world.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Very soon they had passed from the realisation that in them and through them a new world of giantry shaped itself in the earth, from the contemplation of the great struggle between big and little, in which they were clearly destined to participate, to interests at once more personal and more spacious.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Gulf Stream's ribbon, sapphires soft as midday May skies, splashes of chromes and greens -- a palette of giantry, a bridge of wizardry; a hundred, nay, a thousand, times greater than that of Utah which the
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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The flimsy giantry of Ossian has introduced mountainous horrors.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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