ATROCIOUSNESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Atrociousness

... can, forcibly if we must," nearly at the very time Henry's mission was undertaken. The flagitiousness of that embassy had been attempted to be concealed by directing the public attention to the price which, the gentleman says, was given for the disclosure. As if any price could change the atrociousness of the attempt on the part of Great Britain, or could extenuate, in the slightest degree, the offence of those citizens, who entertained and deliberated on a proposition so infamous and unnatural * * * But, sir, I will quit this unpleasant ...

— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various