If she live long, And, in the end, meet the old course of death, Women will all turn monsters . To put out of the common order of things. Not in use. Her offence Must be of such unnatural degree That monsters it. The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of the universe.
Monstrosity is more analogous.
This is the monstruosity in love, that the will is infinite, and the execution confin'd. Such a tacit league is against such routs and shoals of people, as have utterly degenerated from nature, as have in their very body and frame of estate a monstrosity . South's Sermons . By the same law monstrosity could not incapacitate from marriage, witness the case of hermaphrodites. Arbuthnot and Pope.