momentous

momentous

1. tärkeä, merkityksellinen

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momentous

merkittävä, merkityksellinen, tärkeä.

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momentous englanniksi

1. outstanding Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

2. 1725, w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, Everybodys Business is Nobody's Business'':

The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.

3. 1831, w:James Fenimore Cooper|James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound, ch. 31:

"It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."

4. 1902, w:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether, ch. 3:

What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.

5. 2007 July 1, w:Richard Dawkins|Richard Dawkins, "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Dawkins-t.html?pagewanted=all Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):

Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

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