atrociousness
English
Etymology
atrocious + -ness
Noun
atrociousness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being atrocious.
- Synonym: atrocity
- 1689, Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, The Loyalists Reasons for His Giving Obedience, and Swearing Allegiance, to the Present Government, Edinburgh: J. Reid, pp. 34-35,
- If there be joyned to [injustice] an other vice […] , if it be frequent and habitual, in a Person of perfect Age, all these Aggravations augment its Atrociousness.
- 1830, Theodore Dwight Weld, The Bible against Slavery, New York, p. 12,
- The atrociousness of a crime, depends greatly upon the nature, character, and condition of the victim. […] To steal bread from a full man, is theft; to steal it from a starving man, is both theft and murder.
- 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Putnam, Book 2, Chapter 12, p. 309,
- […] as the day dawned, the atrociousness of his conduct became apparent.