Both Uses
atrocious
in
1776, by McCullough
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- A more impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation was never fabricated by the hands of man.†
p. 141.9 *
- As it was, for the most "atrocious offenses," the maximum was thirty-nine lashes, and these, he had found, were seldom layed on as they should be, but more as "sport."†
p. 227.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(atrocious) exceptionally bad, cruel, or ugly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)