monstruosity
English
Noun
monstruosity (countable and uncountable, plural monstruosities)
- Obsolete form of monstrosity.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], column 81:
- This is the monstruosity in love
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for monstruosity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)