tremendousness

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Would not determination rise in him with new tremendousness, and would not hope, after its rebirth in despair, soar to undreamed of heights?

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

Whatever the thing could have been, my impression is of tremendousness, or of bulk many times that of all meteorites in all museums combined: also of relative slowness, or of long warning of approach.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

How strange it was, and how awful, the tremendousness of life, the nearness of death, the absolute relentlessness of suffering, and all the prattle.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth

A good instance of the way in which the tremendousness of a catastrophe may banish fear was given me by a Stanford student.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

He stood by while they shook hands with Poppy, who turned her head away as if to hide some scar, and when she had gone across to Marion tried to get in his designed tremendousness.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca