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Definition of Monstrousness
1. n. The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary.
Definition of Monstrousness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being monstrous. ¹
2. Noun. Something monstrous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monstrousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monstrousness
Literary usage of Monstrousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspeare and his friends; or, The golden age of Merry England [by R.F by Robert Folkestone Williams (1838)
"Oh, the monstrousness of the age!" at last ejaculated Gregory Vellum, " Oh, the
horrid villany! But thou shalt troop for it. I will get rid of thee straight ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"Whence this monstrousness? and to what end? It commands itself, I say, ...
It is therefore no monstrousness partly to will, partly to nill, but a disease of ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Whence this monstrousness? and to what end? It commands itself, I say, to will,
... It is therefore no monstrousness partly to will, partly to nill, ..."
4. The Confessions of Augustine by Augustine, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1860)
"Whence this monstrousness ? and to what end ? It commands itself, I say, to will,
... It is therefore no monstrousness partly to will, partly to nill, ..."
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