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Definition of Dreadfulness
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 Dreadfulness
1. n. The quality of being dreadful.
Definition of Dreadfulness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being dreadful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreadfulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreadfulness
Literary usage of Dreadfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nursery Tales, Traditions, & Histories of the Zulus, in Their Own Words by Henry Callaway (1868)
"That then is the dreadfulness of the Abatwa, on account of which they are dreaded.
FABLES. ... dreadfulness ..."
2. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... A DREADFUL PERSON", One who causes fear, superstitions, or by his own dreadfulness.
... dreadfulness ..."
3. A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount by Daniel Harvey Hill (1858)
"conspire to blunt its sting, how fearful must be its torture amid the sulphureous
waves of perdition. The dreadfulness of that torment, eye hath not seen, ..."
4. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"The sense which he has of the dreadfulness of bis present state. ... The dreadfulness
of the condition, which unconverted men are in in this respect, ..."
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