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Example sentences for "terribleness"

Lexicographically close words:
terrestris; terret; terreur; terribile; terrible; terribles; terriblest; terribly; terribul; terrier
  1. These two faces, then, were to show here the quickness of their apprehension, and their terribleness to execute the mind of God.

  2. And one cause of that has been, for that they did never seriously fall in with, nor yet in heart sink under, either the certainty or terribleness of the day of judgment.

  3. Now, I say, it will cry out of sin, of justice, and of the terribleness of the punishment that hath swallowed him up that has lost himself.

  4. There must be sound sense of sin, sound knowledge of God: deep conviction of the certainty and terribleness of the day of judgment, as also of the probability of obtaining mercy.

  5. The returning again of the backslider gives a second testimony to the truth of man's state being by nature miserable, of the vanity of this world, of the severity of the law, certainty of death, and terribleness of judgment to come.

  6. Variety of, and the terribleness that attends afflictions, call, not only for the beholding of things, but also a laying hold of them by faith and feeling; now this also is with God to the making of HIS to sing in the night.

  7. As there must be, for the producing of sincere confession of sin, a deep conviction of the certainty, so there must also be of the terribleness of the day of judgment.

  8. To right confession of sin, there must be a deep conviction of the certainty and terribleness of the day of judgment.

  9. His associates followed, while a strong military guard added dignity and a tinge of terribleness to the procession.

  10. Their eloquence in the sacred office matched the tenderness of the dove and the terribleness of thunder; distilled like the dewdrop and smote like pointed lightning.

  11. I ought in that place to have dwelt also upon the firm endurance of all terribleness which is marked in Titian's "Notomie" and in Veronese's "Marsyas.

  12. I answered to his Holiness that your terribleness hurt nobody, and that you only seem to be terrible because of your passionate devotion to the great works you have on hand.

  13. So the terribleness and mystery dwindled down into this--a change of position; or if locality is scarcely the right class of ideas to apply to spirits detached from the body--a change of condition.

  14. The legal defenders of the criminal are rarely artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the profit of the doer.

  15. The noxiousness of the snake does not lie in its copper-red dorsal bands, nor the terribleness of the beast of prey in its graceful appearance, nor the danger of the poisonous plant in the form and colour of its blossoms.

  16. The terribleness of the retribution makes nothing against its righteousness; and though it send a tremor through all the worlds of God, the obstinate transgressor shall not go unpunished.

  17. Let God’s terribleness have a deep impression on your spirit, both to make sin bitter, and to make mercy more sweet.

  18. Fanny it stirred so deeply that many times through the terribleness of that meal, she thought she must faint.

  19. Mary realized as she sat there, fascinated by the terribleness of her thoughts, that they all had escaped from life.

  20. The terribleness of being aware that his hands were twitching to shake--hands which he acutely knew should be laid on no one except in blessing, consecrated hands, divinely appointed to bless and then dismiss in peace.

  21. And the terribleness of that in a bishop.

  22. He bows before him as his subject, and brings his 'supplication'; but not one jot of his message will he abate, nor smooth down its terribleness an atom.

  23. And they must be, if we are ever to understand the greatness of His love or the terribleness of His judgments.

  24. To the right confession of sin, there must be a deep conviction of the terribleness of the day of judgment.

  25. There must be sound sense of sin, sound knowledge of God, deep conviction of the certainty and terribleness of the day of judgment, as also of the probability of obtaining mercy.

  26. Terribleness was a word which came into vogue to describe Michelangelo's grand manner.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terribleness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrocity; baseness; bestiality; brutality; deformity; filth; squalor