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Synonyms for atrocity

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-tros-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtrɒs ɪ ti

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Définition of atrocity

Origin :
  • 1530s, from Middle French atrocité or directly from Latin atrocitatem (nominative atrocitas) "cruelty, fierceness, harshness," noun of quality from atrox "fierce, cruel, frightful," from PIE *atro-ek-, from root *ater- "fire" (see atrium) + *okw- "see" (see eye (n.)); thus "of fiery or threatening appearance." The meaning "an atrocious deed" is from 1793.
  • noun outrageous behavior
  • noun cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action
Example sentences :
  • And then I thought how wicked I might have been,—a monster of crime and atrocity.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • The enemy, he said, meant by this atrocity to frighten our sailors away from the sea.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • Doctor Crosson mopped his brow at the atrocity of his thoughts this morning.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • The folly of such a government corrects and tempers its atrocity.
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • It was not content with atrocity, it must needs add cynicism.
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • He revealed the atrocity of his mistress; and she was sent to prison.
  • Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
  • For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed.
  • Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
  • This event occurred about two years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • I assure you that I regarded this species of humor as impertinent to the degree of atrocity.
  • Extract from : « The House » by Eugene Field
  • At the time when this atrocity was perpetrating not an officer interfered.
  • Extract from : « Rattlin the Reefer » by Edward Howard

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