hideousness

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How could a man glide into the lower walks of life, whose mission it was to set forth the types of moral beauty by opposing them, to use his phrase, "to the hideousnesses of vice?"

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

Till I have lit a candle, how can I remember that I do not believe in ghosts, and in nameless hideousnesses infinitely more frightful than ghosts?

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von