A major; not to mention other striking features, such as the imitative passage for the tenor at the first "Quantus tremor," which expresses amazement in the most vivid manner.
After the climax of the motive, "Quantus tremor est futurus," there is a pause which is significant by its very silence; it is the hush before the storm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quantus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.