deluginous

comparative more deluginous · superlative most deluginous

1. rareDeluge-like; overwhelmingly abundant.

   Evidently the storm up the valley had been deluginous.

   1947, Walter Karig, chapter 29, in Zotz!, New York; Toronto: Rinehart & Company, page 219

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   Seas to surprise thee, or enthralls Earth to deluginous ocean, […]

   1897, George Darley, Nepenthe, London: Elkin Mathews, Canto II, page 33

   The roast beef and plum pudding were only just consumed when, as William Lucas records, ‘ a grand storm of thunder and lightning and a deluginous rain ’ broke up the company and silenced the hired music from the City of London.

   1929, William Lucas, edited by Reginald Hine, The History Of Hitchin, volume II, London: George Allen & Unwin, page 425

   A critical approach explicitly committed to a global justice for both animals and humans must first take into account the deluginous amount of scientific research documenting the Sixth Great Extinction⁴ occurring today.

   2017, Carol Gigliotti, “The Struggle for Compassion and Justice Through Critical Animal Studies” (chapter 10), in Linda Kalof, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, Oxford University Press, page 191

   In the latter case, the tear is a visual pun on the ersatz integrity of both affect (of cabaret sadness) and form (Kiki’s theatricalization not only of gender, but the rage of time-out-of-joint), whereas in Pierre, the tear’s vivacity is the surprising outcrop of deluginous factitiousness as its own peculiarly queer ontic principle.

   2017 May 18, Branka Arsic, K. L. Evans, editors, Melville’s Philosophies, Bloomsbury Publishing