Adjective

(en adjective)

Entire; relating to the whole of something.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.

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Adjective

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Very big, large scale.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

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Very good.

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Important.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:He doth object I am too great of birth.

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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

Title referring to an important leader.

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Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.

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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.

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(lb) Pregnant; large with young.

*(Bible), (Psalms) lxxviii. 71

*:the ewes great with young

More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.

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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

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Intimate; familiar.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:those that are so great with him