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In literature, "stupendous" is employed as a powerful intensifier that conveys a sense of vast scale or overwhelming impact. Authors use it both to describe tangible marvels—a clock of immense dimensions [1] or a grand architectural structure [2]—and to highlight the force of abstract concepts, whether in depicting colossal efforts in adversity [3] or the transformative power of nature and thought [4], [5]. The word often signals an experience beyond the ordinary, ranging from a physically imposing environment [6] to an emotional or metaphysical phenomenon that leaves characters and readers in awe [7], [8].
  1. A huge bucket with water stood at one extremity of the room, and a clock of stupendous dimensions at the other.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
  2. The whole stood on a mighty platform built up with stupendous masonry and vaulted chambers from the valley surrounding the rock on three 41 sides.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  3. It was the result of his disasters, and of the stupendous efforts he was obliged to make.
    — from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini
  4. It is the infant Thought of man opening itself, with awe and wonder, on this ever-stupendous Universe.
    — from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
  5. Earnest simple recognition of the workings of Physical Nature, as a thing wholly miraculous, stupendous and divine.
    — from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
  6. Nothing, except some traces of its foundations, is now to be seen of this stupendous building.
    — from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
  7. She could dimly perceive that something stupendous had happened.
    — from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
  8. And yet if there has ever been on earth a real stupendous miracle, it took place on that day, on the day of the three temptations.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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