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l law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very wickedness. Ps. v. 9.

A cause of pollution or wickedness.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. " Audacious traitor." Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." Milton.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.

of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

inciple; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their…

Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity. Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope.

Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer.

state, or the punishment itself. How can ye escape the damnation of hell Matt. xxiii. 33. Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Shak.

A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19. Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton.

To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean. A general expression to denote wickedness of every sort. Gilpin.

depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism.

racteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15.

Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. Stark lies and devilry. Sir T. More.

ly to the fulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] "A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness." Latimer.

or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Eccl. ix. 3.

sh. Ps. xcii 7 Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. Tennyson.