All 3 Uses of
enormity
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Beside the savage desire within him to realize the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.†
Chpt 2 *
- —Sin, remember, is a twofold enormity.†
Chpt 3
- The malice, impotent though it be, which possesses these demon souls is an evil of boundless extension, of limitless duration, a frightful state of wickedness which we can scarcely realize unless we bear in mind the enormity of sin and the hatred God bears to it.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(enormity as in: enormity of the crime) extreme wickedness
or more rarely (and considered incorrect by many): enormousness (largeness)