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Definition of Awfulness
1. Noun. A quality of extreme unpleasantness.
Generic synonyms: Unpleasantness
Specialized synonyms: Frightfulness
Derivative terms: Awful, Awful, Awful, Dreadful, Dreadful, Horrid, Horrid, Terrible, Terrible, Terrible, Terrible
Definition of Awfulness
1. n. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
Definition of Awfulness
1. Noun. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, ''the awfulness of this sacred place''. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awfulness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Awfulness
Literary usage of Awfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1892)
"Awfulness. — The third circumstance that may be named as producing a feeling of
the sublime is a certain degree of awfulness and solemnity. ..."
2. Lay Sermons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"motive, however ennobled by the magnitude and awfulness of its objects,* and
though as the termination of a ..."
3. Journal of the Life, Travels and Gospel Labors of Thomas Arnett by Thomas Arnett (1884)
"Awfulness and serenity pervaded the minds of the people, and they were, every
one of them, I believed, fully convinced that the true gospel of Christ was ..."
4. Sermons by George Buist (1809)
"On the uncertainty and awfulness of death ; preparation for it to he found only
in the conscientious practice of Christian duties. 1 THESS. CHAP. 5, VER. 2. ..."
5. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1880)
"Mr. G is a small, smooth, and pretty young man, not emphasized in any way ; but
grief threw its awfulness about him to-day in a degree which I should not ..."
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