Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being in coils or convolutions.
- noun Copiousness; diffuseness.
- noun The state of being voluminous or bulky.
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- noun the state of being
voluminous
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- noun greatness of volume
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Examples
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Here in dim and desperate forms, under the ban of our base culture, stormed at by silly magistrates, sneered at by silly schoolmasters -- here is the old popular literature still popular; here is the unmistakable voluminousness, the thousand-and-one tales of Dick Deadshot, like the thousand-and-one tales of Robin Hood.
Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009
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Hanley Black surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of antediluvian, New-England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness."
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The great achievement of The Bridge is the sheer voluminousness of its coverage.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick 2010
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Each generation taught the older one a lesson in sheer voluminousness.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Each generation taught the older one a lesson in sheer voluminousness.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Each generation taught the older one a lesson in sheer voluminousness.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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My only fear is that there is perhaps a little too much of the novel in it, so that some of the dialogue has a Shavian voluminousness.34
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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My only fear is that there is perhaps a little too much of the novel in it, so that some of the dialogue has a Shavian voluminousness.34
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects, but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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