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horribility Now rare.|hɒrɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[ME. (h)orriblete, etc., a. OF. horribleté, horribilité, f. horrible (see next); in mod. use f. horrible, after such words as possibility, etc.]
1. The quality of being horrible, horribleness; † something horrible or to be abhorred (obs.).
13..St. Bernard (Horstmann) 528 Seint Bernard wolde hire not se, As a þing of horriblete. c1400Rom. Rose 7187 Full many another orribilite May men in that book se. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. lviii. (1859) 56 Of al my fowle horribilite thy self art the cause. 1481Tiptoft Tulle on Friendsh. (Caxton) E vij b, The horrybylyte of his sharp lyf. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. i, The horribility of ‘committing’ puns.
†2. Abhorrence = horribleness 2. Obs. rare.
1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vi. x. 247/1 Comonly wymen haue more horrybylyte of synne than men doo. |