All 3 Uses of
prodigious
in
Mansfield Park
- Fanny could read, work, and write, but she had been taught nothing more; and as her cousins found her ignorant of many things with which they had been long familiar, they thought her prodigiously stupid, and for the first two or three weeks were continually bringing some fresh report of it into the drawing-room.†
Chpt 2
- But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting.†
Chpt 6 *
- Yes, the expense of such an undertaking would be prodigious!†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree