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‖ Schrecklichkeit|ˈʃrɛklɪçkaɪt|
[Ger., = ‘frightfulness’.]
= frightfulness 2 b. Also transf. and fig.
1917G. B. Shaw in New Republic 6 Jan. 274/1 As to the deliberate Schrecklichkeit of the Germans in Belgium..no man should judge unless he knows the military history of all invasions, and of that very British institution, the punitive expedition. 1944― Everybody's Political What's What? xxxv. 307 The British frightfulness of 1943 has left the German Schrecklichkeit of 1915 far behind. 1969R. Lowell Notebk. 1967–68 96 Mohammed..smashed the celibates..Changed their non-activist Buddhistic rote to his clans' strict laws of schrecklichkeit and honor. 1972K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me ii. 10, I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up. 1976Listener 6 May 588/3 The Schrecklichkeit in which the relations between parents and children are so often conducted in Britain. |