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1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr x. 269 Bellarmine..delt herein with more obnoxiousnesse, and lesse excuse, then Binius.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Dorset 289 Considering his own Obnoxiousness for so rash a fact, he..procured his pardon at Court.

1704 M. Henry Communicant's Compan. x Considering..our unworthiness and obnoxiousness.

1828 F. Halleck Poet. Writings (1869) 161 (note) The embodied representative of a party leader, and of party men in general, in their proverbial obnoxiousness.

1611 R. Bolton Disc. State True Happinesse 126 Thoughts are free. They are free indeed, in respect of obnoxiousnes to humane iustice, in respect of discouerie and danger from any creature.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. v. 32 Their deadly machinations and our miserable obnoxiousnesse.

a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) iv. 153 Sensible of our own obnoxiousness to the like slips or falls.

1729 T. Stackhouse Compl. Body Divinity iv. i. §2. 580 Our Obnoxiousness to the Severity of his Laws.

1871 W. Markby Elem. Law §148 Duty or obligation is..sometimes described as obnoxiousness to a sanction.

1876 J. Tulloch Christian Doctr. Sin 195 Neither can there be any doubt that he passes over to humanity the state of condemnation or obnoxiousness to punishment into which Adam fell.

1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 39 I shall only mention here two English Books, whose Frantispieces, as they have a near resemblance, yet, without interfering, or obnoxiousness on either side, they prosecute the same good intentions for the publick good.

c1729 J. Gay Let. 18 Nov. (1966) 80 Mr Pope tells me that I am dead and that this obnoxiousness is the reward for my inoffensiveness in my former life.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The obnoxiousness of the law rendered the legislature unpopular.

1838 W. G. Simms Richard Hurdis II. xxvii. 326 We have already seen that it was really no part of Grafton's desire, whatever might be the obnoxiousness of Eberly to the laws, to bring him to trial.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 i. 26 They could not drive the Austrians from Lombardy, but gave them palpable hints of their obnoxiousness there.

1902 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 10 448 The obnoxiousness of the trusts is confessed to be the more popular arraignment, and is therefore given all the emphasis.

1945 R. Benchley One Minute Please 56 The romping instinct..seems to be developed to a high state of obnoxiousness at all boys' camps.

2002 New Yorker 13 May 58/3 Kramer came off as a weird mixture of Jerry Rubin and Mahatma Gandhi: three parts obnoxiousness and one part righteous indignation.