facinorousness
English edit
Etymology edit
facinorous + -ness
Noun edit
facinorousness (uncountable)
- (rare, formal) extreme wickedness
- 1841, George Borrow, The Zincali - Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain:
- The Emperor Constantine the Great, and other emperors who founded the civil law, condemned to death those who should practise such facinorousness […]
- 2011, Regina Jeffers, The Scandal of Lady Eleanor, page 259:
- Sounding quite pompous, he continued, “The devil cannot remain at Thorn hall. It has seen enough facinorousness.”