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.
| c 1440 Alph. Tales 117 He had lepre folk in so grete vgsomnes þat he myght not suffer to se þaim. 1483 Cath. Angl. 401/2 An Vgsomnes, abhominacio. 1509 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876) 81 Suche as be ouercomen by temptacyons are very blynde not perceyuynge þe vgsomnes of synne. 1549 Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 185 The horrour and vgsomnes of death is sorer then death it selfe. a 1672 J. Livingstone in Tweedie Sel. Biogr. (Wodrow Soc.) I. 273 When sinlesse nature did sinlesly scunder at the infinite ugsomenes of the cup of wrath. 1834 Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 564 Some hideous witch⁓hag, to look on whose ugsomeness would be to die. |