Large
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Language and behaviour can also be large (ie “grandiose”): Kent wrily comments about Gonerill and Regan’s “large speeches” (King Lear, I.i.184), and Gloucester dismisses Reignier’s “large style” (Henry VI Part 2, I.i.109). Beware also a sexual nuance, “licentious, coarse”. Maecenas says Antony has been “most largeIn his abominations” (Antony and Cleopatra, III.vi.93); and in Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio insists “I never tempted her (Hero) with word too large” (IV.i.50), and Don Pedro refers to Benedick making “some large jests” (II.iii.195).
DAVID CRYSTAL
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