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Facinorous

//fəˈsɪnəɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely wicked. archaic, formal

    "Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facinorōsus, from facinus (“deed, bad deed”), from faciō (“to make, to do”).

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