All 6 Uses of
enormity
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- So they did not abstain; and, in the midst of the uproar, there was a frightful concert of blasphemies and enormities of all the unbridled tongues, the tongues of clerks and students restrained during the rest of the year, by the fear of the hot iron of Saint Louis.†
Chpt 1.1.3
- "To think that Monsieur of Reims sent this enormity to Monsieur of Paris," added la Gaultière, clasping her hands.†
Chpt 1.4.1
- But the sermon over, he none the less tranquilly resumed his course of seditions and enormities.†
Chpt 1.4.5 *
- —Add to this a plaited tucker, knots of ribbon on her shoes—and that the stripes of her petticoat ran horizontally instead of vertically, and a thousand other enormities which shocked good taste.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Therein lay the enormity.†
Chpt 2.9.2
- Brother, you behold a culprit, a criminal, a wretch, a libertine, a man of enormities!†
Chpt 2.10.2
Definition:
extreme wickedness
or more rarely (and considered incorrect by many): enormousness (largeness)
or more rarely (and considered incorrect by many): enormousness (largeness)