tremendousness

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The proportions of the personages, in the light of the magnifying music, are seen to be heroic, their natures vast, their passions, in their very tremendousness, august.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

She doubted if she could have felt this tremendousness of love in England.

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma

Again, the tremendousness of this high isolation swept over her.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Indeed, they were all too dazed by the suddenness and tremendousness of the blow to think very clearly about anything.

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson