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Frightfulness — Fright ful*ness, n. The quality of being frightful. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
frightfulness — frightful ► ADJECTIVE 1) very unpleasant, serious, or shocking. 2) informal terrible; awful. DERIVATIVES frightfully adverb frightfulness noun … English terms dictionary
frightfulness — See frightfully. * * * … Universalium
frightfulness — noun The quality of being frightful … Wiktionary
frightfulness — fright·ful·ness || fraɪtfÊŠlnɪs n. dreadfulness, awfulness; quality of being frightening or horrifying … English contemporary dictionary
frightfulness — fright·ful·ness … English syllables
frightfulness — n. 1 being frightful. 2 (transl. G Schrecklichkeit) the terrorizing of a civilian population as a military resource … Useful english dictionary
Schrecklichkeit — (German terror or frightfulness ) was a military responseFact|date=September 2008 of the German Army to civilian resistance in World War One during the invasion of Belgium, France [http://www.haverford.edu/engl/english354/GreatWar/Belgium/schreck … Wikipedia
frightful — adjective Date: 1607 1. causing intense fear or alarm ; terrifying 2. startling especially in being bad or objectionable < a frightful novel > 3. extreme < frightful thirst > • frightfully adverb • frightfulness … New Collegiate Dictionary
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