Evilness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being evil. countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice wordnet

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badnessviciousnessvilenessarrantnessbadnessbaseness

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"[…] 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."

Etymology

From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness.

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