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Definition of Ghoulishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghoulishness
Literary usage of Ghoulishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt (1913)
"There is in these verses a certain morbidity, an almost ghoulishness, that is
very seldom present elsewhere in his writing. ..."
2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... striking of clocks or bells, Webster heightens the atmosphere of gloom pervading
all his dramas by the solemn melancholy or ghoulishness of his imagery. ..."
3. Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang (1887)
"The most awful Japanese vampire, caught red-handed in the act, a hideous, bestial
incarnation of ghoulishness, we have carefully refrained from reproducing. ..."
4. English Book-plates: Ancient and Modern by Egerton ( Castle (1894)
"I myself (if I may compare the small with the great) repudiate the accusation of
ghoulishness, and yet hope in due course to be owner of many more " dead ..."
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