superintensity

Updated: June 18, 2025

She was such a blasphemer, too; and could drink what would lay a trooper under the table, and yet show it in nothing but the superintensity of her Satanic propensities. She was so malignant, and seemed to bear to all God's creatures so general a malevolence, that her consistent and superlative wickedness cowed and paralysed them.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard