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Vertiginous   Listen
adjective
Vertiginous  adj.  
1.
Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion. "Some vertiginous whirl of fortune."
2.
Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. "They (the angels) grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven."





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"Vertiginous" Quotes from Famous Books



... proper time and place. It is pleasant to see them brandish great masses of shadow. And what a power they have over the colour of the world! How they ruffle the solid woodlands in their passage, and make them shudder and whiten like a single willow! There is nothing more vertiginous than a wind like this among the woods, with all its sights and noises; and the effect gets between some painters and their sober eyesight, so that, even when the rest of their picture is calm, the foliage is coloured like foliage in ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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