She at once took side with Helen against Dr. Portman when he cried out at the enormity of Pen's transgressions.

She burned at the enormity of Dwight's appeal to her for verification.

They who only draw the child's dress the tighter, the more it cries, are guilty of a crime of little less enormity than murder.

And there he remained, until the emperor came to himself and comprehended the enormity of his crime.

"Do not think, O Emperor, to atone for the enormity of your offence by merely presenting yourself in the church.

However possible it maybe thought to reclaim children of so tender an age, I am convinced that thieves of more advanced years become so thoroughly perverted in their wills and understandings, as to be incapable of perceiving the disgrace of their conduct, or the enormity of the offence.

One ought to forgive a great deal, but not such an enormity as that!"

And therefore Leigh Hunt flew into a savage passion against the critic who had chastised his crime, pretended that he himself was insidiously charged with the offences which he had applauded and celebrated in others, and tried to awaken the indignation of the public against his castigator, as if he had been the secret assassin of private character, who was but the open foe of public enormity.

How keenly she detects and proclaims the number and enormity of her rival's faults!

Compare the "enormity of pleasure" which De Quincey says Wordsworth derived from the simplest natural object with the serious protest of Wilkie Collins against the affectation of caring about Nature at all.

I say that the fact of Nelson's case being always brought up as the great enormity carried more conviction to my mind of the utter weakness of the opponents' cause than anything else; and it also proved to me how ignorant many of them were of the truth, for several of them who vilified the Bill, the Government, and the Governor-General, had not the slightest idea, till I informed them, how the Nelson award was applied.

Of course her cousins and their friends hated her: she had won their bonne louche, and the crimson of her plainness and poverty, of the having to "have Percy always around to please Uncle Rufus," was pink to the enormity of her being Ross Norval's wife.

This was noted by the shrewdness of the Old Testament, when it summed up the dark irresponsible enormity of Leviathan in the words, "Will he make a pact with thee?"

The enormity of what I had done paralysed me.

But the very enormity of the iniquity makes me doubt it.

To the arresting officer his appearance was in impressive contrast to the enormity of his offences.

The burghers of Laon themselves, "having reflected upon the number and enormity of the crimes they had committed, shrank up with fear," says Guibert, "and dreaded the judgment of the king."

The first syllable had come to him in the passageway when he saw her partly, and the feeling of dread that "Mir" might prove to be part of "Miranda," "Myrtle," or some other enormity, passed instantly.

The spirit of this was fine, but one realized the enormity of the task; should the mighty German machine crush the French machine, the Allies had lost.

what atrocities are we unconsciously perpetrating North and South now, in the name of mercy or defence, which the advancing light of progressive thought will presently show out in their enormity?

He was the only one of the trio who had the nerve to write, and seemed the only one who realized the enormity of his crime, and that he would never see the sun of another day.

" Second-Lieutenant M'Lachlan, suddenly awake to the enormity of his conduct, turned guiltily to greet the officer, while the Sergeant abruptly hunted the genial Private Bogle back into the ranks.

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

We speak of the enormity of Cæsar Borgia's crimes, of the enormousness of the Rothschilds' wealth.

ENORMITY, ENORMOUSNESS. 72.

Continuous- continual and enormity-enormousness are examples.

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

Thus "the enormity of the crime," "the enormity of this social offense"; "the enormousness of prehistoric animals.

I urged him with the enormousness of the offence, but I made no impression.

At night when he felt afraid in bed, impressed by the enormousness of the room that served as his sleeping chamber, it was enough for him to recall the sovereign of Byzantium to make him forget immediately his disquietude and the thousand queer noises in the old building.

Enormity, enormousness.

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

We speak of the enormity of Cæsar Borgia's crimes, of the enormousness of the Rothschilds' wealth.

ENORMITY, ENORMOUSNESS. 72.

Enormity, enormousness, distinguished, 30.