All 4 Uses of
prodigious
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.†
Chpt 33 *
- I am prodigiously proud of him.†
Chpt 53
- I do think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever lived—and her nieces are very pretty behaved girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.†
Chpt 54
- She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree