Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being forbidding; repulsiveness, Richardson.
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Examples
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There are a few stray "narrative" details -- the school is near a store "presided over by a matronly woman with a rather forbidding manner" -- but they are false leads: neither the matronliness, nor the forbiddingness, nor even the woman herself is ever mentioned again.
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There are a few stray "narrative" details -- the school is near a store "presided over by a matronly woman with a rather forbidding manner" -- but they are false leads: neither the matronliness, nor the forbiddingness, nor even the woman herself is ever mentioned again.
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Unlike many of the gates of the rich, these were not ornamental—no fancy design, no family crest on the heavy bars, just thick double-welded iron in all its forbiddingness.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Unlike many of the gates of the rich, these were not ornamental—no fancy design, no family crest on the heavy bars, just thick double-welded iron in all its forbiddingness.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Unlike many of the gates of the rich, these were not ornamental—no fancy design, no family crest on the heavy bars, just thick double-welded iron in all its forbiddingness.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Aladdin frowned at Larch with all the forbiddingness that he could muster, but Larch was imperturbable.
Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914
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You may have to try them many times; there is something of Nature's rudeness and forbiddingness, not only at the first, but probably always.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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