flagitiousness

English

Etymology

From flagitious +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈdʒɪʃəsnəs/

Noun

flagitiousness (uncountable)

The state or quality of being flagitious; wickedness, infamy.
- 1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account Of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church, etc., part 1, page 74:
  Anſelm calls a Synod at St. Paul’s, where was this Statute made; We condemn this Sodomitical Flagitiouſneſs in any, and thoſe that aſſiſt them, with a heavy Anathema.
- 1790, John ‘Walking’ Stewart, The Moral State of Nations, or Travels Over the Most Interesting Parts of the Globe, etc., page 28 of the 1837 edition:
  [H]ow can he esteem himself, when conscience will ever upbraid him with the participation in an act, whose flagitiousness is so great, that unless he renounces the character of man, his very share would be sufficient to sink him under the most ignominious contempt […]?
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, OCLC 5625662194:
  [T]he man of sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, by his promiscuous amours produces a most destructive barrenness and contagious flagitiousness of manners.
- September 6, 1808, Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to William Short”, in Jefferson: Political Writings, Cambridge U Press (3rd edition, 2005), p. 276
  The papers have lately advanced in boldness and flagitiousness beyond even themselves.

单词	flagitiousness
释义	flagitiousness English Etymology From flagitious +‎ -ness. Pronunciation (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈdʒɪʃəsnəs/ Noun flagitiousness (uncountable) The state or quality of being flagitious; wickedness, infamy. 1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account Of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church, etc., part 1, page 74: Anſelm calls a Synod at St. Paul’s, where was this Statute made; We condemn this Sodomitical Flagitiouſneſs* in any, and thoſe that aſſiſt them, with a heavy Anathema.* 1790, John ‘Walking’ Stewart, The Moral State of Nations, or Travels Over the Most Interesting Parts of the Globe, etc., page 28 of the 1837 edition: [H]ow can he esteem himself, when conscience will ever upbraid him with the participation in an act, whose flagitiousness is so great, that unless he renounces the character of man, his very share would be sufficient to sink him under the most ignominious contempt […]? 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, OCLC 5625662194: [T]he man of sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, by his promiscuous amours produces a most destructive barrenness and contagious flagitiousness of manners. September 6, 1808, Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to William Short”, in Jefferson: Political Writings, Cambridge U Press (3rd edition, 2005), p. 276 The papers have lately advanced in boldness and flagitiousness beyond even themselves.
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