Meanings
nounfacinorousness (uncountable)
- formalrareuncountableextreme wickedness
Sounding quite pompous, he continued, “The devil cannot remain at Thorn hall. It has seen enough facinorousness.”
2011, Regina Jeffers, The Scandal of Lady Eleanor, page 2591 more example
The Emperor Constantine the Great, and other emperors who founded the civil law, condemned to death those who should practise such facinorousness […]
1841, George Borrow, The Zincali - Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
Origin
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