The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hunnish \Hunnish\ a.
Of or pertaining to the Huns.
Like the Huns; barbarous, cruel, and destructive.
Usage examples of "hunnish".
Venetian estuary is usually dated from the year 452, the period of the Hunnish invasion under Attila, when the Scourge of God, as he was named by his terror-stricken opponents, sacked the rich Roman cities of Aquileia, Concordia, Opitergium, and Padua.
The Hunnish invasion certainly gave an enormous increase to the lagoon population, and called the attention of the mainlanders, to the admirable asylum which the estuary offered in times of danger.
It is really with the Hunnish invasion that the history of Venice begins its first period of growth.
Hermanric was defeated by the Hunnish invaders, and in his despair laid violent hands on himself.
It was plain that the Visigoths, like their Eastern brethren, if they remained in the land, must bow their heads beneath the Hunnish yoke.
We hear of resistance to the Hunnish supremacy vainly attempted and sullenly abandoned.
From this time the great Hunnish Empire was at an end, and there was a general resettlement of territory among the nations which had been subject to its yoke.
If there be any truth in the suggestion made above, that the Hunnish attack on Walamir was made before the Ostrogothic migration into Pannonia, the birth-year must be moved up to 452.
Visigothic king, fought the fight of civilisation against Hunnish barbarism on the Catalaunian battle-plain.
And straightway came old Scorn and Bitterness, Like Hunnish kings out of the barbarous land, And camped upon the transient Italy That he had dreamed to blossom in his soul.
Hapsburg with connections to a minor German royal family that had immigrated to England with nothing but their Protestantism to recommend them, and which had recently changed its name to one of less Hunnish sound as a gesture of patriotism.
From the point of view of his thousand years of samurai breeding, her lineage appeared to be only a couple of centuries of Hunnish chieftainship.
Sir Ramsey came charging into my yard as though the Hunnish cavalry were after him to deliver those letters from His Highness.
Theodosius II of the Eastern Empire to smash the Hunnish invaders under Attila.
Then our Hunnish companion would surely expire in his own stink within a few hours.