evilness
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editevilness (countable and uncountable, plural evilnesses)
- The quality or state of being evil.
- 1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church:
- […] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editof or relating to evil
Further reading
edit- “evilness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “evilness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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