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facinorousness

noun

facinorousness

noun

Etymology From facinorous + -ness.

1

Formal, Rare extreme wickedness

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

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