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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxxiiii Olyuer Deuyll, whom, for the odiousnesse of the name y^e Kynge causyd it to be chaungyd, & to be named Damman.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 103 Thy suite a Gods name, spiced with the gleames of [of repeated in original] thy stailes loue muste mitigate the odiousnes of thy request.

1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 71 A thing..of infinite odiousnesse.

1650 J. Reynolds Flower of Fidelitie iii. 71 When the odiousnes of thy (impudent) fact, shall (with the wind of report) arrive to the barre of (unpartial) discretion.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 162 The odiousness of the crime.

1799 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Jan. in Writings (1984) 1059 The odiousness of the corruption supposed in those papers excited a general & high indignation.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. x. 123 All laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery.

1884 Manch. Examiner 14 May 5/2 We say nothing of the impossibility of the task. It is enough to speak of its odiousness.

1955 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 16 57 Some comic figures..create in us a sense of detachment and estrangement as much by the artificiality of their character as by their odiousness.

1991 Premiere Aug. 46/2 Turner lights one of the Canadian cigarettes..squinting with one eye..to invoke a moment's savoring of the odiousness of the twerp.