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chasmy en · ADJ

Etymology

From chasm + -y.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a chasm.
   • North-eastward, at the extreme right, or Elbe point of it, where Grüne and the Austrians stand, it has grown so chasmy, we judge that Grüne can neither advance nor be advanced upon: so we leave him standing there,—which he did all day, in a purely meditative posture. 1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Battle of Kesselsdorf”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, pages 213–214:
   • They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed, / Rocked on the dizzy larch's narrow tread; […] 1791–1792 (date written; published 1793), William Wordsworth, “[Juvenile Pieces.] Extracts from Descriptive Sketches Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Alps.”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page 81:

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