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Heinousness

noun
1.
The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.  Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness.





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"Heinousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the heinousness of the crime of adultery, by which the peace of families was destroyed. He said, 'Confusion of progeny constitutes the essence of the crime; and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who does it.[164] A man, to be sure, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... their extravagance, and affronting the very altar with their impious falsehood. Those I leave to general scorn, not however without a general recommendation that they who have offended or may be disposed to offend in this manner, would take into serious thought the heinousness of ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


Words linked to "Heinousness" :   heinous, atrocity, inhumaneness, atrociousness, inhumanity, barbarity


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