单词 | hideousness |
释义 | hideousnessn. 1. objectively. The quality of being hideous: dreadfulness; horrible repulsiveness. (See the adjective.) ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > hideousness loathsomenessa1300 hideousness1340 loathliness1483 shockingness1753 hideosity1807 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > state or quality of being disgusting foulnessOE hideousness1340 fulsomeness?a1425 revoltingness1749 disgustingness1851 gauntness1874 grottiness1984 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 9487 Þe hydusnes Of payne and sorrow þat in helle es. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 378 Warnyngis of hydousnes & perille of þis synne. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/1 Hydiousnesse, hideuseté. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 97 Fashion-monging boies, That..Go antiquely, and shew outward hidiousnesse. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 10) 752 He that hath wounded this Lion at the heart, shall never feare the..hideousnesse of his roaring. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 114 That natural wonder at Castleton, which is from its hideousness named the Devil's Arse. 1885 Law Times 79 132/2 Unsavory scandals..exhibited in all their native hideousness. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [noun] > horror grislea1225 grising?c1225 uga1240 hidourc1315 ugginga1325 uglinessc1325 horror1382 grisness1398 horribleness1398 hideousnessa1425 hideousshipc1430 ugrinessc1480 horringc1568 horrorie1600 phobia1786 horrification1801 aghastness1845 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xxxii. 10 The kyngis..shulen drede with greet hidousnesse on thee [1382 with ful myche orrour shulen be agast vpon thee]. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job iv. 15 The heiris of my fleisch hadden hidousnesse. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xv. 12 Whanne the sunne was gon doun, drede felde on Abram, and a greet hidousenesse [1382 grisynes] and derk asaylide him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < n.1340 |
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