Both Uses of
prodigious
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- the prodigious power which had been exerted†
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- The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufficiently well known to all.†
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree