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Another word for atrocity

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atrocity

n.

Brutality
inhumanity, wickedness, barbarity; see cruelty.
A cruel deed
crime, offense, outrage, atrocious deed, horror, iniquity, enormity, abomination, slaughter, wrong; see also crime 1, 2, murder.

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Another word for atrocity

noun

The quality of passing all moral bounds:
atrociousness, enormity, heinousness, monstrousness. See good
The quality or state of being flagrant:
atrociousness, egregiousness, enormity, flagrance, flagrancy, flagrantness, glaringness, grossness, outrageousness, rankness. See good
A monstrous offense or evil:
enormity, monstrosity, outrage. See right

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For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed.
There is the fact also that Calvin used his endeavour to have the sentence which had been pronounced against Servetus mitigated, death by burning being regarded by him as an "atrocity," for which he sought to substitute death by the sword.

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