atrocity

atrocity englannista suomeksi

1. hirmuteko

2. julmuus

0. Substantiivi

1. julmuus, hirmuteko

atrocity englanniksi

1. An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.

(ux)

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1662|author=William Pynchon|title=The Covenant of Nature Made with Adam|location=London|section=Chapter 11, Section 3, p. 277|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56361.0001.001

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1795|author=Helen Maria Williams|title=Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France|location=London|publisher=G. G. and J. Robinson|section=Letter 4, p. 61|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843695.0001.001

4. (RQ:Douglass Bondage) The atrocity roused my old master, and he spoke out, in reprobation of it;

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1887|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=A Study in Scarlet|location=New York and London|publisher=Street & Smith|chapter=7|page=87|url=https://archive.org/details/ost-english-studyinscarletno00doyl/page/n94/mode/1up?q=atrocity

6. (quote-book)

7. The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.

(syn)

8. 1553, (w), letter, in (w) (ed.), ''Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters,'' London: John Day, 1564, pp.(nbs)481-482,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19465.0001.001

Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, that I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to the lord Christ my Sauiour,

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1759|author=Adam Smith|title=The Theory of Moral Sentiments|location=London|publisher=A. Millar|section=Part 1, Section 3, Chapter 4, p. 81|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004894986.0001.000

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1843|author=William H. Prescott|title=History of the Conquest of Mexico|location=New York|publisher=Harper|section=Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 8, p. 284|url=https://archive.org/details/gri_historyofthe02pres/page/n315/mode/1up?q=atrocity

11. (RQ:Trollope The Way)

12. {{quote-text|en|year=1904|author=Joseph Conrad|title=Nostromo|location=New York|publisher=Harper|section=Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 119|url=https://archive.org/details/nostromotaleofse00conruoft/page/119/mode/1up?q=atrocity

13. An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.

14. (RQ:Twain Roughing It) some of the printers were good singers and others good performers on the guitar and on that atrocity the accordeon—

15. (quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Grosset and Dunlap|chapter=7|page=114|url=https://archive.org/details/sobigferb00ferb/page/114/mode/1up?q=atrocity