giantship
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
giantship (countable and uncountable, plural giantships)
- The state, personality, or character of a giant.
- Synonym: giantness
- 1966, C. S. Lewis, On Stories:
- 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.
- A term of address for a giant.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 74:
- His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,
References[edit]
- “giantship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.