wickedness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English wikkednesse, wikkednes, equivalent to wicked + -ness.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wickedness (countable and uncountable, plural wickednesses)
- The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:
- So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
- 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 227d:
- We speak of wickedness as something in the soul different from virtue.
- A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
Quotations
[edit]- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:5:
- And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Translations
[edit]state of being wicked
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wicked thing
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References
[edit]- “wickedness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “wickedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyk- (separate)
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