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Voluminous   /vəlˈumənəs/   Listen
Voluminous

adjective
1.
Large in volume or bulk.
2.
Marked by repeated turns and bends.  Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding.  "Winding roads are full of surprises" , "Had to steer the car down a twisty track"
3.
Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse).  Synonym: copious.  "A subject of voluminous legislation"



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"Voluminous" Quotes from Famous Books



... exile in England, the two corresponded at times, and the letters here given are the fragments of a voluminous correspondence, the greater part of which has been lost. They are to be found in the untranslated collated works of Saint-Evremond, and are very curious, inasmuch as they were written when Ninon and ...
— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... later expelled from the kingdom, Pantoja died at Macao in January, 1618 (Sommervogel). Ricci died at Pekin in May, 1610. In the archives not only of Spain, but of Italy, France, and England, are many and voluminous documents referring to the Catholic missions in China. The Jesuit missions there are very ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various

... depreciate his achievements in philosophy, without troubling themselves to inquire too closely into their intrinsic value. I am sorry to be obliged to instance the illustrious Mommsen, who speaks of the De Legibus as "an oasis in the desert of this dreary and voluminous writer." From political partizanship, and prejudices based on facts irrelevant to the matter in hand, I beg all students to free themselves in reading ...
— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... had hoaxed him into believing that he could never walk in the London streets without using firearms, and having advised him to learn to do so, the idiot put the weapon against his cheek, and the first kick had knocked away a voluminous ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... men, and continued his wonderful journey, which was to furnish the explanation of the great river system of tropical America. Around him stretched the greatest tropical lowland of the world, before him ran the most voluminous river of the earth. He saw nothing but forest and water, a bewitched country. He had no equipment beyond that which was afforded by the Napo's banks, and his men grumbled daily at the ...
— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin


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