Re: RETRACTION - DAVE BARRETT & HIGH POINT SCIENTIFIC
From: Rod Mollise (rmollise_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/19/04
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Date: 19 Jun 2004 13:54:50 GMT
>Enormity means depraved abnormality.
Hi Mike:
Sorry to nitpick right back, old buddy ;-)
Websters says (I'm too lazy to find a magnifying glass and look it up in my two
volume OED):
"Enormity, quality of being enormous; great wickedness; atrocity."
The first definition is much more common in American-English usage. That is, it
_is_ a synonym for "enormousness." Your definition is correct, of course, if
less common.
Actually, in this case, both definitions are applicable.
Yes, I was an English major in an earlier life. ;-)
Peace,
Rod Mollise
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