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Definition of Atrociousness
1. Noun. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
Generic synonyms: Inhumaneness, Inhumanity
Derivative terms: Atrocious, Atrocious, Barbarous, Heinous
Definition of Atrociousness
1. Noun. the state of being atrocious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Atrociousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrociousness
Literary usage of Atrociousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scholar's Companion: Containing Exercises in the Orthography, Derivation by Henry Butter (1849)
"ENOR'MOUS, beyond the usual measure ; huge ; excessive^ act; atrociousness.
ABNOR'MOUS, (little used), irregular; deformed. act; atrociousness 334. ..."
2. The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of by Charles James Fox (1815)
"But, when a fact was stated by one honourable member of that House, and the
possibility of it denied by another, on account of its atrociousness, then least ..."
3. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria, Voltaire, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1819)
"But it must be observed, the time for inquiry and justification should not increase
in direct proportion to the atrociousness of crimes; for the probability ..."
4. The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters by A. F. (1804)
"But it must be observed, the time for enquiry and justification should not increase
in direct proportion to the atrociousness of crimes ; for the ..."
5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"... we accustom ourselves more seriously to consider the atrociousness'of those
offences which we previously accounted trivial. XI. Fn the third place, ..."
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