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Webster 1913 Edition


Grimness

Grim′ness

,
Noun.
[AS.
grimnes
.]
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grimness

GRIM'NESS

,
Noun.
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness.

Definition 2024


grimness

grimness

English

Noun

grimness (usually uncountable, plural grimnesses)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being grim.
    • 2007, George Woodcock, Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley (page 79)
      This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one []