Schrecklichkeitn.
/ˈʃrɛklɪxkʌɪt/ = frightfulness n. 2b. Also transferred and figurative.
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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories
frightfulness1914
Schrecklichkeit1917
scorched earth1937
retreatism1942
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > terrorism
terrorism1796
terrorization1869
Schrecklichkeit1917
1917 G. B. Shaw in New Republic 6 Jan. 274/1 As to the deliberate Schrecklichkeit of the Germans in Belgium..no man should judge unless he knows the military history of all invasions, and of that very British institution, the punitive expedition.
1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? xxxv. 307 The British frightfulness of 1943 has left the German Schrecklichkeit of 1915 far behind.
1969 R. Lowell Notebk. 1967–8 96 Mohammed..smashed the celibates..Changed their non-activist Buddhistic rote to his clans' strict laws of schrecklichkeit and honor.
1972 K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me ii. 10 I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up.
1976 Listener 6 May 588/3 The Schrecklichkeit in which the relations between parents and children are so often conducted in Britain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1917