frightfulness

A Vile feature of German "frightfulness" is this: that she mixes poison with her prisoners' rations.

But all this is mere swagger and "frightfulness," an attempt to make themselves look terrible and frighten the bourgeois.

But Christopher had seemed neither to resent the frightfulness nor to care about the moral or spiritual consequences.

It was a frightful crusade; yet who was to blame for it but the Germans and their own self-advertised frightfulness?

Having got closer to immensity than their fellow-creatures, they saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness.