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monumental (adj.)

And smooth as monumental alabaster.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.

The monumental pomp of age

Was with this goodly personage;

A stature undepressed in size,

Unbent, which rather seemed to rise

In open victory o'er the weight

Of seventy years, to loftier height.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The White Doe of Rylstone. Canto iii.