Both Uses
inordinate
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.†
p. 15.9 *
- Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.†
p. 103.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(inordinate) excessive or more than is reasonable or normal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)