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from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle English forms of hideous, hideously.
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Examples
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Not not perfect even some really hidous stuff but still pretty damn good.
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And whan the knyghte saw hire in that forme so hidous and so horrible, he fleyghe awey.
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And he zede47 and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
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But there is no man in the world so hardy, Cristene man ne other, but that he wolde ben a drad for to beholde it: and that it wolde semen him to dye for drede; so is it hidous for to beholde.
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And he zede493 and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But there is no man in the world so hardy, Cristene man ne other, but that he wolde ben a drad for to beholde it: and that it wolde semen him to dye for drede; so is it hidous for to beholde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And whan the knyghte saw hire in that forme so hidous and so horrible, he fleyghe awey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[Footnote: Went.] and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And whan the knyghte saw hire in that forme so hidous and so horrible, he fleyghe awey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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