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grimness|ˈgrɪmnɪs|
[f. grim a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being grim; fierceness; sternness; formidable aspect.
971Blickl. Hom. 55 He [the devil] wile hit him mid grimnesse & mid yfele eall forᵹyldan. a1000Guthlac 550 (Gr.) Cwædon cearfulle Criste laðe to Guðlace mid grimnysse. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 341/8 Atrocitas, grimnes. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋790 (Ellesm. MS.) They shul han..sharpe hunger and thurst and grymnesse [v.r. grislines, grymlynesse] of deueles. c1440Promp. Parv. 212/2 Grymnesse, or horrybylnesse. 1563Golding Cæsar i. (1565) 29 b, They were not able to abyde the grymnesse of their countenaunces. 1619Bp. J. King Thanksgiv. Serm. 26 The grimness of her visage disguised, yet will it be fearefull enough. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. (1851) 60 That in the grimness of Death they might seem to eat their own flesh. 1787Glover Athenaid xxx. 284 Whose ravell'd brow, and countenance of gloom, Present a lion's grimness. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv, A sardonic grimness lies in that irreverend Reverence of Autun. |