Usage History of 'awful'

The following chart shows how frequently 'awful' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'awful' occurred 2 times in books in 1520 and 718,696 times in 2008. From 1520 to 2008, the word 'awful' was used a total of 10,747,629 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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