gianthood
English
Etymology
giant + -hood
Noun
gianthood (uncountable)
- The state of being a giant.
- 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History, page 24:
- A kind of vacant hugeness, large awkward gianthood, characterises that Norse System; enormous force, as yet altogether untutored, stalking helpless with large uncertain strides.
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