Meanings
- uncountableAn act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
"I be'n a-heahin' about shu, an' I be'n skeehed dat some wrongdom was a-hatchin', […]"
1903, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Old Squire: the romance of a black Virginian - Page 3412 more examples
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.
1971, Frank Campenni, Citizen Howard Fast: A critical biography - Volume 2[…]—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?
2004, Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, The Robert Shaw Reader
Origin
- Middle Englishwrongdom
- Englishwrongdom
From Middle English wrongdom, wrangdome (“harm”), equivalent to wrong + -dom.
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