Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition of being immane; monstrosity; savageness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.

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  • noun obsolete Hugeness, great size.
  • noun obsolete Enormity, outrageous cruelty or savagery.

Etymologies

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From Latin immānitās.

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Examples

  • Aod to them is adiied the force oi several olhtr principles which usually impel men pretty strongly in the dirgctian ot immanity.

    The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions Calculated to ... 1812

  • a hundred thousand men slain, [301] one writes; [302] another, ten thousand families were rooted out, that no man can but marvel, saith Comineus, at that barbarous immanity, feral madness, committed betwixt men of the same nation, language, and religion.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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