wrongdom
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wrongdom, wrangdome (“harm”), equivalent to wrong + -dom.
Noun edit
wrongdom (uncountable)
- An act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
- 1903, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Old Squire: the romance of a black Virginian - Page 341:
- "I be'n a-heahin' about shu, an' I be'n skeehed dat some wrongdom was a-hatchin', […] "
- 1971, Frank Campenni, Citizen Howard Fast: A critical biography - Volume 2:
- The column had broken the first rule of Communist publications everywhere, virtually the first commandment of contemporary Marxist faith: Thou shalt not admit wrongdom within the Soviet Union.
- 2004, Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, The Robert Shaw Reader:
- […] —all this on a day Congressional arguments begin as to the windom or losedom, the rightdom or wrongdom of war on who-knows-whose block?