Both Uses of
monstrosity
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
- He resolved to institute some decisive test that should satisfy him, once for all, whether there were those dreadful peculiarities in her physical nature which could not be supposed to exist without some corresponding monstrosity of soul.†
monstrosity = something that is big and terrible
- Thou hast made me as hateful, as ugly, as loathsome and deadly a creature as thyself—a world's wonder of hideous monstrosity!†
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Definition:
something that is ugly or terrible -- typically large