Now the solemnities of the oath do aggravate the heinousness of the breach of it, as is clear from Jer.
To revert to that of Dante’s various demeanour, it will be seen that, with the limitation indicated above, his sympathy with the sinner does not vary with the comparativeheinousness of the sin.
Only when the soul realises God thus brooding over the face of the world, thus waiting for the fulness of the divine enrichment, will men realise the heinousness of life-suppression.
It is when the soul is awakened {189} to God that men realise the heinousness of sacrificing life to selfishness.
I inquired of her if she was aware of theheinousness of her offence.
Bigamy may be adduced as another instance: the heinousness of the offence is not in having more than one wife, but in the prospect of the children of the first marriage being left to be supported by the community.
Their regard for them gains over their acquaintances, whilst the heinousness of the proceeding gains over the crowd.
The penitent man fell on his knees, and with tears in his eyes acknowledged the heinousness of his offence, and expressed the strongest protestations of future loyalty, and of gratitude as well as attachment to his humane commander.
He cannot but behold the heinousness and infinite evil that is in it, which required such an infinite recompense.
The heinousness of it crieth once, and the poor people cry again, and both these come up to the ears of the Lord of hosts, nay, it hath the cry of murder, and another beside.
Now I desire you to consider, how mightily the heinousness of sin is aggravated, partly by the quality of the persons, and partly by the consideration of his benefits to us.
Is not every day presenting our primitive departure from God, our first separation from the Fountain of life by sin, to our view, and in such sad and woful effects pointing out the heinousness of sin?
Do you not see the infinite evil and heinousness of sin, in the giving of such a precious ransom for it?
And certainly, that none can know without the feeling knowledge of the height and heinousness of sin.
Our public men can only pronounce against the crime of polygamy; the press can see only polygamy in Utah; the public mind is impressed with only the heinousness of polygamy.
The very heinousness of heresy to the mediaeval mind lay largely in its challenge to the essential social, ecclesiastical, doctrinal unity of Christendom.
By birth or adoption the heretic must have been a Christian: for the heinousness of his crime consists in its being a repudiation, a rebellion.
Mary knew exactly how long to keep the meat in salt and the heinousness of frying steaks in butter.
We have then trampled upon a fundamental principle of justice, and countenanced a prime maxim of iniquity; thus adding, in an unexampled degree, the foolishness of impolicy to the heinousness of guilt.
Those I leave to general scorn, not however without a general recommendation that they who have offended or may be disposed to offend in this manner, would take into serious thought the heinousness of their transgression.
Yes; and that after all that I said to you as to the heinousness of such wickedness.
The whole heinousness of the thing which she had done was given in its full details, and the details were repeated more than once.
They did not take the life of the offender, but gave to him a punishment which would well portray to him the heinousness of the crime.
That should depend upon the heinousnessof the offence," he replied.
Attempt to make the child realize the heinousness of the offense involved in the making of the golden calf, as idolatry is so remote from the child's experience, that he is not likely to be much impressed by the significance of it.
His mind was clearer, less scrupulous than that of his colleagues, and he had most at stake now, for nothing but ultimate success could justify the heinousness of his methods.
All this ought to awaken in us sorrow and distress, not so much by reason of the threatened punishment, as rather on account of the heinousness of the many provocations offered to a merciful Father, who in his very nature is love and kindness.
He seemed to have a just notion both of theheinousness of that crime which he had committed and of the shame and ignominy he had brought upon himself and his relations.
And will not these, good doctor, quoth he, and the vast pains I have endured in their cure, in some sort lessen the heinousness of the facts I may have committed?
A man might be set in the stocks, or put in pillory, and so made to feel the heinousness of his offence.
Esteem for them gained the good-will of their acquaintances, the heinousness of the proceeding, that of the crowd.
The multitude was excited partly by the heinousness of the misdeed, partly by the hope of recovering their liberty on a favourable opportunity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heinousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
