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Definition
greatness of magnitude or range — especially the height of a wave
- Some of them were very tall; many were dressed in white; and all had a sweeping amplitude of array that seemed to magnify their persons as a mist magnifies the moon.Chapter 17 (47% in)
- Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.Chapter 17 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "amplitude" in Jane Eyre.
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