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Definition of Direness
1. n. Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
Definition of Direness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being dire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Direness
1. the state of being dire [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direness
Literary usage of Direness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Thomas Marc Parrott (1904)
"... treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors ;
direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"I have supp'd full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me. [Re-enter SEYTON] Wherefore was that cry? SEY. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once stir me I " After
this, the dreary wretchedness of his detested and despised old age confronts ..."
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