Hypertext Webster Gateway: "atrocity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Atrocity \A*troc"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Atrocities}. [F. atrocit['e],
L. atrocitas, fr. atrox, atrocis, cruel.]
1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
The atrocities which attend a victory. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
atrocity
n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: {atrociousness},
{barbarity}, {barbarousness}, {heinousness}]
2: a act of atrocious cruelty [syn: {inhumanity}]
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