单词 | revoltingness |
释义 | revoltingnessn. The state or quality of being revolting; repulsiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > state or quality of being disgusting foulnessOE hideousness1340 fulsomeness?a1425 revoltingness1749 disgustingness1851 gauntness1874 grottiness1984 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 5 The revoltingness of gross, rank, and vulgar expressions. 1846 L. Hunt Stories Ital. Poets I. 150 At the close of this medley of genius, pathos, absurdity, sublimity, horror, and revoltingness. 1866 O. Glover Short Treat. on Sin vii. 62 The revoltingness of such a doctrine is little softened by the explanation that God does not act arbitrarily. 1907 G. Murray Rise Greek Epic v. 122 Homer has cut out these stories for their revoltingness. 1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xvi. 153 He..smiled a smile of just the right degree of revoltingness. 1994 Classical Q. New Ser. 44 508 Plutarch's On the Eating of Meat begins with an expression of the revoltingness of dead meat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1749 |
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