Both Uses of
prodigious
in
Northanger Abbey
- I bought one for her the other day, and it was pronounced to be a prodigious bargain by every lady who saw it.†
Chpt 3 *
- It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree