felonous

English

Etymology

From Middle English felenous(e), felenows, fellenouse, felonous(e), felonows(e), felonus, from Old French feloneus.

Adjective

felonous (comparative more felonous, superlative most felonous)

1. (obsolete) Evil, wicked.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Deliuered vp the Lord of life to die, / And did acquite a murdrer felonous […]