facinorousness en · NOUN
Etymology
From facinorous + -ness.
Meanings
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(formal, rare, uncountable) 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: