Enormity

(noun.) an act of extreme wickedness.

(noun.) the quality of extreme wickedness.

(noun.) vastness of size or extent; 'in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size'; 'universities recognized the enormity of their task'.

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• I came to you that morning in order to understand the full enormity of my offence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But in vain he cried out against the enormity of turtle and champagne that was fit for an archbishop. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• All I am concerned about is in arriving at a sense of the enormity of the impulse behind the social evil. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is high time, for the sake of humanity, that a stop were put to this enormity. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I wish my people to be impressed with the enormity of the crime, the determination to punish it, and the hopelessness of escape. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And I commit both those enormities, ma'am. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Now if it was Dick, now—here the old sinner cast up his eyes, as if unable to guess at Dick's enormities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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