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Meanings of terribleness in English

Catalan
terror
Spanish
terror

A quality of extreme unpleasantness.

        terror
        Usage of terribleness in English
        1
        Already their import had become familiar enough to lose that first terribleness.
        The Nether World
        2
        The vast spectral terribleness is quickly transformed into a scene of indescribable loveliness.
        See America First
        3
        I must be losing my terribleness for them, I thought.
        Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
        4
        We feel powerless in the face of what feels like an onslaught of terribleness.
        Ebony
        5
        The terribleness of the sight painted the honest anxiety for the woman on his face.
        Michael, Brother of Jerry
        6
        He seemed to know the terribleness of the night through which The Rat had passed.
        The Lost Prince
        7
        Well, perhaps they do show His awful terribleness somehow.
        Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
        8
        His associates followed, while a strong military guard added dignity and a tinge of terribleness to the procession.
        Sketches of the Covenanters
        9
        But I did not predict the terribleness of a 119-109 score for Lopez.
        News.com.au
        10
        His relentless terribleness is sublime.
        Ebony
        11
        In the other hand she holds a naked sword upright, in token of the terribleness of her punishment.]
        Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
        12
        And if either of us is going to keep going, we've got a whole mountain of terribleness ahead of us.
        Sea of Rust
        13
        To the right confession of sin, there must be a deep conviction of the terribleness of the day of judgment.
        The Pharisee and the Publican
        14
        Almost all this enhanced terribleness of war is due to the novel machinery of destruction that science has rendered possible.
        New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
        15
        To right confession of sin, there must be a deep conviction of the certainty and terribleness of the day of judgment.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
        16
        And they must be, if we are ever to understand the greatness of His love or the terribleness of His judgments.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
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