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Word Meanings - ATROCITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

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  • FEROCITY
    Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
  • ABOMINATION
    1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;
  • ATROCITY
    1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.
  • IMMUNITY
    free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service;
  • TRUCULENCE; TRUCULENCY
    The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
  • SAVAGERY
    1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft
  • CRUELTY
    1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act
  • PERPETRATION
    1. The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime. 2. The thing perpetrated; an evil action.
  • ENORMITY
    1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey. 2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or

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