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Frightfulness

noun
1.
The quality of being frightful.





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"Frightfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the true Prussian mould. "In crime," he would say, "as in war, no half measures. Let us follow the example of our rulers whose orders in war run, 'Kill, burn and sink,' and what you cannot carry away, destroy.'" Here is the gospel of frightfulness applied almost prophetically to crime. To Butler murder is a principle of warfare; to Peace it was never more than a desperate resort or an act ...
— A Book of Remarkable Criminals • H. B. Irving
... present age intrigue plays a wider part, and affects the whole country. The people are drugged with the hashish of false hopes and urged to deeds of frightfulness by the goadings of manufactured panics; their higher feelings are exploited by devious channels of unctuous hypocrisy, their pockets picked under anaesthetics of flattery, their very psychology affected by a conspiracy ...
— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore
... of this frightfulness—his palace! Snow-white marble, whiter than the Taj by moonlight. But its base is stained red, a creeping blood-red from the ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts


Words linked to "Frightfulness" :   awfulness, luridness, grimness, ghastliness, frightful, terribleness, horridness, gruesomeness, dreadfulness


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