immensive
English
Etymology
From Middle French immensif, from immense + -if.[1] By surface analysis, immense + -ive.
Adjective
immensive (comparative more immensive, superlative most immensive)
- (obsolete or nonstandard) Synonym of immense.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the King”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 278:
- Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines here, / A Publike Light (in this immenſive Sphere.)
- 1951 May 19, Thomas J. Hamilton, “U.N. Asks All Bar Arms to Red China […]”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Sir Benegal also quoted General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s statements that, in modern war, with its immensive destructiveness, there could be no victory for either side, and that it was defeatism to think that war was inevitable.
- 1993, Tom Clark, “They Just Went Home”, in Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place […], New York, N.Y.: New Directions, →ISBN, page 85:
- So another aspect of mind actively then comes to say, you know, bonding is terrific—as parents and child, or characters of possible friendship, or the bonding of a common situation, as of suffering, etc., that has made an immensive difference, or has had an extraordinary effect.
Derived terms
References
- ^ “immensive, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- “immensive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.