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Definition of God-awful
1. Adjective. Very unpleasant. "Stop that god-awful racket"
Definition of God-awful
1. Adjective. ''(U.S. Slang)'' A superlative form of the adjective '''awful''' ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of God-awful
Literary usage of God-awful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1892)
"Awful it is for feeble man to contemplate the Omnipotence of God, awful for finite
man to contemplate His Eternity ; most of all awful is it for sinful man ..."
2. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1903)
"He should see that God awful in His righteousness, more awful in His love, close
to his daily life. New needs should start out of his deepening religion, ..."
3. The Unity of God and Man: And Other Sermons Preached at Bedford Chapel by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1886)
"There is something awful, when we are its subjects, in this terrible pertinacity
of God ; awful in its trial hours; awful at every hour, when we stop in the ..."
4. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1831)
"Surely, to live without God is criminal and unhappy ; to die without God, gloomy
and dreadful; to spend eternity without God, awful and insupportable. ..."
5. The Battle of Life, and Other Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1893)
"He should see that God awful in His righteousness, more awful in His love, close
to his daily life. New needs should start out of his deepening religion, ..."
6. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1841)
"... the idea of a forgiving God, a redeeming God, and yet a God awful in the glory
of his holiness, and swaying the universe of his intelligent creatures by ..."
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