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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



... mighty themes as the Attributes of God, the Divinity of Jesus Christ, the Nature and Desert of Sin, the Atonement, Regeneration, Faith, Resurrection, and Judgment to come, with Heaven and Hell as tremendous realities. They emphasized the heinousness and the desert of sin as a great argument for repentance and acceptance of Jesus Christ. A lapse from that style of preaching is to be deplored; for as Gladstone truly remarked, the decline or decay of a sense of sin against God is one of the most ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... that the cure had a piano. She it was who took two hospital attendants to the priest's humble house and brought the instrument away. She had it placed inside the altar rails, and fought the cure afterwards in the vestry as to the heinousness of the proceeding. ...
— The Isle of Unrest • Henry Seton Merriman

... the heinousness of the misdemeanour was increased because of the presence of strangers. The probable punishment of the female would be the ducking-stool, which, to the terror of all beholders, occupied a prominent position about the centre of the Bridge ...
— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 • Various

... offered, if his handcuffs were replaced, to take them off in the presence of the court. The proposal, however, was not acceded to; and the Chief Justice Powis, after enumerating his various offences and commenting upon their heinousness, awarded sentence of death against him for ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... warden, and carried away, so far within England, she esteemed a great affront. The lieger, Mr. Bowes, in a frequent convention kept at Edinburgh, the 22d of May, did, as he was charged, in a long oration, aggravate the heinousness of the fact, concluding that peace could not longer continue betwixt the two realms, unless Bacleuch were delivered in England, to be punished at the queen's pleasure. Bacleuch compearing, and charged with the fact, made answer—'That ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... she said, and sighed heavily. "But after what befell last night, when... You know what is in my mind. I was distraught then, mad with fear for this poor father of mine, so that I could not even consider his sin in its full heinousness, nor see how righteous was your intent to inform against him. Yet I am thankful that it was not by your deletion that he was taken. The thought of that is to-day my ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini



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



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