Also 5–6 vgsomnes (6 ug-), 5 hugsomenes, 6 Sc. wgsumnes. [f. prec. + -NESS.] † a. Loathing. Obs. b. The quality of being ugsome; loathsomeness; ugliness.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 117. He had lepre folk in so grete vgsomnes þat he myght not suffer to se þaim.
1483. Cath. Angl., 401/2. An Vgsomnes, abhominacio.
1509. Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876), 81. Suche as be ouercomen by temptacyons are very blynde not perceyuynge þe vgsomnes of synne.
1549. Latimer, 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 185. The horrour and vgsomnes of death is sorer then death it selfe.
a. 1672. J. Livingstone, in Tweedie, Sel. Biogr. (Wodrow Soc.), I. 273. When sinlesse nature did sinlesly scunder at the infinite ugsomenes of the cup of wrath.
1834. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXVI. 564. The moan was wicked—perhaps from some hideous witch-hag, to look on whose ugsomeness would be to die.
