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terribleness|ˈtɛrɪb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being terrible; frightfulness, dreadfulness, awfulness.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) T vij, The most terrible, and the laste terrible of all terriblenes. 1535Coverdale Deut. xxvi. 8 The Lorde..brought vs out of Egipte..with greate terryblenesse thorow tokens and wonders. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv. (1867) I. 257 He did not only bear the terribleness of imprisonment. 1710Abp. Sharp Serm. Acts xvii. 31 Wks. 1754 VI. 188 The..majesty, and terribleness of his appearance. 1887Smiles Life & Labour 431 The sadness and terribleness of some of the aspects of life. |