wickedness
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Middle English wikkednesse, wikkednes, equivalent to wicked + -ness.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
wickedness (countable and uncountable, plural wickednesses)
- The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
- 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 227d:
- We speak of wickedness as something in the soul different from virtue.
- A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
Quotations Edit
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:5:
- And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Translations Edit
state of being wicked
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wicked thing
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References Edit
- “wickedness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “wickedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.