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Titanlike

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Titanlike (comparative more Titanlike, superlative most Titanlike)

  1. rare spelling of Titan-like
    • 1841 May, “Transcendental Theology”, in The Christian Examiner and General Review, number 104, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company; New York, N.Y.: C. S. Francis; London: John Green, page 216:
      The countrymen and contemporaries of Fichte were all distinguished for the boldness of their philosophical inquiries; but he carried away the palm by a Titanlike audacity of speculation, which seemed to aim at scaling the heavens and prescribing limits to Omnipotence.
    • 1959 spring, C. N. Stavrou, “Ambiguity in Faulkner’s Affirmation”, in The Personalist: An International Review of Philosophy, Religion, and Literature, volume XL, number 2, page 171:
      Joe Christmas (Light in August), Nancy Mannigoe (Requiem for a Nun), and the Corporal (A Fable) endure Titanlike agonies with Christlike meekness and fortitude.
    • 2009, Andrieh Vitimus, Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation Through the Ovayki Current, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 232:
      They wanted the main participant to be possessed by four Titanlike forces, including Tiamat.