Both Uses of
inordinate
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.†
Scene 3
- We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.†
Scene 4 *
Definition:
excessive or more than is reasonable or normal