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annus horribilis, n.|ˈænəs hɒˈrɪbɪlɪs|
[mod.L., lit. ‘dreadful year’, modelled on annus mirabilis n.]
A disastrous or particularly unpleasant year.
1985Guardian 7 Mar. 10/2 Unlike the earlier Kostelec stories, however, The Engineer of Human Souls was written in exile in Toronto, where he was driven by the annus mirabilis, annus horribilis of 1968, and that projected wartime story has expanded into something far more ambitious and problematic. 1988Sunday Times 7 Aug. b1/1 In the past annus horribilis, BT's black and yellow cubicles have sprouted in every town and village in the land. 1990Financial Times 23 June ii. 2/7 If last year was the annus mirabilis of the oil sector of the unlisted securities market, this year is looking more like the annus horribilis. 1992Queen Elizabeth II in Times 25 Nov. 3/2, 1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘annus horribilis’. |