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horribleness|ˈhɒrɪb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being horrible; shocking repulsiveness; dreadfulness, hideousness.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xx. (1495), As it faryth in the taast of an aloe and other that ben passynge bytter, for by her horryblenes therof the taast is sore greuyd. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 69 None might endure to loke theron for orribelnesse. 1587Golding De Mornay xxx. (1617) 525 To make him know the horriblenesse of his sin. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici 409 You do not rightly apprehend the horribleness of the Massacre. 1827D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports 198 A bite from a mad dog is more dreaded..from the horribleness of the disease.
†2. subjectively. A feeling of horror or repulsion. Obs. (Cf. hideousness 2.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.), [An eclipse] smyteþ in men and beestes many maner feere and horriblenesse [timoris et horroris]. Ibid. ix. xxv, Nyȝt of it silfe greueþe in horriblenes and feere. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xi. 78 b, By horriblenesse of spirite, and by trouble of minde. 1577Frampton Joyful News iii. (1596) 108 Although it bee taken, it maketh not any horribleness, as the other Balsamo doeth. |