Meanings
plural giantships
- countableuncountableThe state, personality, or character of a giant.
The real theme [of a story] may be, and perhaps usually is, something that has no sequence in it, something other than a process and much more like a state or quality. Giantship, otherness, the desolation of space, are examples that have crossed our path.
1966, C. S. Lewis, On StoriesSynonyms: giantness
- countableuncountableA term of address for a giant.
His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 74
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state, personality, or character of a giant.
Origin
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