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facinorousness

facinorousness noun: extreme wickedness.

Noun

facinorousness (uncountable)

  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

Origin of facinorousness

From facinorous + -ness.

Questions about facinorousness

What does facinorousness mean?
Facinorousness means extreme wickedness.
What part of speech is facinorousness?
Facinorousness is a noun.

Words near facinorousness in the dictionary

  1. facing the music
  2. facing up
  3. facing up to
  4. facings
  5. facinorous
  6. facinorousness
  7. Facio
  8. facio-
  9. facioauriculovertebral
  10. faciobrachial
  11. faciobrachiodystonic

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