grewsome

English

Adjective

grewsome (comparative more grewsome, superlative most grewsome)

1. Obsolete spelling of gruesome.
   • 1895, Henry Seton Merriman, The Sowers‎^[1]:

     It was rather a grewsome scene.

   • 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Battle of the Sand-belt”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 560:

     True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country—the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine—but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain.

   • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie‎^[2]:

     His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its grewsome quality.

   • 1909, Cleveland Moffett, chapter 19, in Through the Wall‎^[3]:

     And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.

   • 1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea‎^[4]:

     I sprang back, giving utterance to a cry, which brought Watkins to me, and the two of us stared at the grewsome object and then about into the wavering shadows.