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there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. Tillotson.

Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. "Reprobate desire." Shak.

To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. 1 Kings ii. 44.

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot. That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. G. Stuart.

Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. L' Estrange.

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.

Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Polluted by sin or wickedness. The hours of this ungodly day. Shak. -- Un*god"li*ly, adv. -- Un*god"li*ness, n.

in most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20 How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! Sir P. Sidney.

character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. I do confess the vices of my blood. Shak. Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice. Milton. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private st…

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak.