Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being flagitious; shameful wickedness; atrocity.
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- noun The state or quality of being
flagitious
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Examples
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Fingers crossed, though, that this spate of tween flagitiousness will come to an end now that everyone from Vanessa Hudgens to Miley Cyrus has seen rude pictures of themselves published on the internet.
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Contrasting the humanity of the present age with the barbarism of antiquity, great stress has been laid on the savage custom of exposing the children whom their parents could not maintain; whilst the man of sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, by his promiscuous amours produces a most destructive barrenness and contagious flagitiousness of manners.
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But I knew it not; and ran headlong with such blindness, that amongst my equals I was ashamed of a less shamelessness, when I heard them boast of their flagitiousness, yea, and the more boasting, the more they were degraded: and I took pleasure, not only in the pleasure of the deed, but in the praise.
The Confessions 1999
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And yet that first I called a Monad, as it had been a soul without sex; but the latter a Duad; — anger, in deeds of violence, and in flagitiousness, lust; not knowing whereof I spake.
The Confessions 1999
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Convention, which sufficiently indicated their proceedings, were always sanctioned by circulation, and applauded, according to the excess of their flagitiousness.
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Convention, which sufficiently indicated their proceedings, were always sanctioned by circulation, and applauded, according to the excess of their flagitiousness.
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The flagitiousness of this resolution is aggravated if possible by the arbitrary means by which its adoption was secured.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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If Louis XVI. can serve to prove, by the flagitiousness of government in general, the necessity of revolutions, France ought not to let slip so precious an opportunity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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The flagitiousness of this resolution is aggravated if possible by the arbitrary means by which its adoption was secured.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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And yet that first I called a Monad, as it had been a soul without sex; but the latter a Duad; anger, in deeds of violence, and in flagitiousness, lust; not knowing whereof I spake.
The Fourth Book 1909
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