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形容詞

chasmy (comparative more chasmy, superlative most chasmy)

1. Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
   • 1791–1792 (published 1793)​, William Wordsworth, “Extracts from Descriptive Sketches Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Alps”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, OCLC 6852224, page 81:

     They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed, / Rocked on the dizzy larch's narrow tread; […]

   • 1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Battle of Kesselsdorf”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 156109991, book XV, pages 213–214:

     North-eastward, at the extreme right, or Elbe point of it, where Grüne and the Austrians stand, it has grown so chasmy, we judge that Grüne can neither advance nor be advanced upon: so we leave him standing there,—which he did all day, in a purely meditative posture.