Ebon vs Atrocious - What's the difference?
ebon | atrocious | Related terms |
(poetic) Made of ebony.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
*:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
* 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
(poetic) Black in colour.
Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
Ebon is a related term of atrocious.
As adjectives the difference between ebon and atrocious
is that ebon is (poetic) made of ebony while atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.As a noun ebon
is (now poetic) ebony; an ebony tree.ebon
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Alternative forms
* hebene (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.