wrongdom

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrongdom, wrangdome (“harm”), equivalent to wrong +‎ -dom.

Noun

wrongdom (uncountable)

1. An act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
   • 1903, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Old Squire: the romance of a black Virginian - Page 341:

     "I be'n a-heahin' about shu, an' I be'n skeehed dat some wrongdom was a-hatchin', […] "

   • 1971, Frank Campenni, Citizen Howard Fast: A critical biography - Volume 2:

     The column had broken the first rule of Communist publications everywhere, virtually the first commandment of contemporary Marxist faith: Thou shalt not admit wrongdom within the Soviet Union.

   • 2004, Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, The Robert Shaw Reader:

     […] —all this on a day Congressional arguments begin as to the windom or losedom, the rightdom or wrongdom of war on who-knows-whose block?