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ugsomeness|ˈʌgsəmnɪs|
Also 5–6 vgsomnes (6 ug-), 5 hugsomenes, 6 Sc. wgsumnes.
[f. prec. +-ness.]
†a. Loathing. Obs.
b. The quality of being ugsome; loathsomeness; ugliness.
c1440Alph. Tales 117 He had lepre folk in so grete vgsomnes þat he myght not suffer to se þaim. 1483Cath. Angl. 401/2 An Vgsomnes, abhominacio. 1509Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876) 81 Suche as be ouercomen by temptacyons are very blynde not perceyuynge þe vgsomnes of synne. 1549Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 185 The horrour and vgsomnes of death is sorer then death it selfe. a1672J. Livingstone in Tweedie Sel. Biogr. (Wodrow Soc.) I. 273 When sinlesse nature did sinlesly scunder at the infinite ugsomenes of the cup of wrath. 1834Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 564 Some hideous witch⁓hag, to look on whose ugsomeness would be to die. |