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immensive en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle French immensif, from immense + -if. By surface analysis, immense + -ive.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, obsolete) Synonym of immense.
   • Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines here, / A Publike Light (in this immenſive Sphere.) 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:
   • 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. 1951 May 19, Thomas J. Hamilton, “U.N. Asks All Bar Arms to Red China […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • 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. 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:

Forms

Deriveds

immensively

Synonyms

immense