Both Uses of
hideous
in
Middlemarch
- And now, as if by some hideous magic, this loud red figure had risen before him in unmanageable solidity—an incorporate past which had not entered into his imagination of chastisements.†
Chpt 5 *
- If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate?†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening