awfulness

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Awfulness supreme of tumult,—combining all imaginable echoings of fury and destruction and despair!

From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio

Usual expressions, the ordinarily adequate figures—comparisons with knees, with billiard balls—sink into impotence, are sacrilege before the Awfulness of the thing.

From Caybigan by Hopper, James

For every thing that is Majestick imprints an Awfulness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder, and strikes in with the Natural Greatness of the Soul.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph