LekhoriLekhoriThe quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482, Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour,
An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
[S]ome of the printers were good singers and others good performers on the guitar and on that atrocity the accordeon—[…]
From Middle French atrocité, from Latin atrōcitātem, from atrox (“terrible, cruel”) + -tās, from āter (“matte black”).
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