ugsomeness
English
Etymology
Noun
ugsomeness (uncountable)
- (Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) The state or condition of being ugsome.
- c. 1660–1672, John Livingstone, “Letter from Mr John Livingstone to a Friend (No. VI)”, in Tweedie, Rev. William King, editor, Select Biographies, volume 1, Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, published 1845, page 273:
- When sinlesse nature did sinlesly scunder at the infinite ugsomenes of the cup of wrath,—"Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me."