Facinorousness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    extreme wickedness formal, rare, uncountable

    "The Emperor Constantine the Great, and other emperors who founded the civil law, condemned to death those who should practise such facinorousness […]"

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"The Emperor Constantine the Great, and other emperors who founded the civil law, condemned to death those who should practise such facinorousness […]"

Etymology

From facinorous + -ness.

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