enormity

Example Sentences

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Enormity, though, does Paddington no favors; smallness of stature is intrinsic to his appeal.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015

A true and natural Representation of any Enormity, is often the best Argument against it and Means of removing it, when the most severe Reprehensions alone, are found ineffectual.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

This Satisfaction, which flows from the Merits of Jesus Christ, is full and intire, and proportionable to the Enormity of all the Sins of Mankind.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Enormity pertains to the moral and sometimes the social, enormousness to the physical.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

Enormity is used of deeds of unusual horror; enormousness, of things of unusual size.

From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray