All 3 Uses of
prodigious
in
Pudd'nhead Wilson
- If the twins could but do some crowning act now to climax it, something usual, something startling, something to concentrate upon themselves the company's loftiest admiration, something in the nature of an electric surprise— Here a prodigious slam-banging broke out below, and everybody rushed down to see.†
Chpt 6
- They were conducted to the platform by Buckstone ... and were delivered to the chairman in the midst of a prodigious explosion of welcome.
Chpt 11 *prodigious = enormous; or far beyond the usual amount
- The twins were prodigiously great now; the town took them to its bosom with enthusiasm.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree