All 3 Uses of
prodigious
in
A Room of One's Own
- That was the way it was done, presumably, sixty years ago, and it was a prodigious effort, and a great deal of time was spent on it.†
Chpt 1
- to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty.
Chpt 3 *prodigious = far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
- And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate, I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is most propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree