Meanings
- pluralplural of gruesomeness
He did an express service in murders and assaults, specializing in hacked-up bodies and other gruesomenesses
2003, Michael Hofmann, “The Cartel”, in The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth, translation of original by Joseph Roth, published 1923, page 742 more examples
That Euripides' taste ran often to such gruesomenesses is indicated by the plots of some of his lost tragedies.
1948, Alan Reynolds Thompson, The Dry Mock: A Study of Irony in Drama, page 184Some aspects of its gruesomenesses — reputedly including a cut in family allowances — proved too Bumble-like for the cabinet to swallow
1963, Norman Macrae, Sunshades in October, page 50
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