grimness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the quality of being ghastly
gruesomeness; ghastliness; luridness.
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noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; asperity; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
WordNet
Grim"ness noun
Etymology
AS. grimnes.Definitions
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.