word of the day :: prodigious

prodigious:

[pruh-dij-uh s]

–adjective

1.  extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: aprodigious research grant. 

2. wonderful or marvelous: a prodigious feat.

3. abnormal; monstrous.

4. Obsolete . ominous.

  

Origin:

1545–55;  < L prōdigiōsus  marvelous. See prodigy, -ous

"It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy."

:: Charles Baudelaire ::

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