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  • noun A worst or lowest point.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival

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Examples

  • This states that it is the CDF (the Vatican department that enforces orthodoxy) which must deal with the use of the confessional for sexual exploitation and with the abuse of pre-adolescent children, which is described in the document as crimen pessimum, the worst of all crimes.

    The secret secret of the Vatican 2010

  • Vinum frigidis optimum, et pessimum ferina melancholia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 'Tis a known saying, Furor fit Iaesa saepius palienlia, the most patient spirit that is, if he be often provoked, will be incensed to madness; it will make a devil of a saint: and therefore Basil (belike) in his Homily de Ira, calls it tenebras rationis, morbum animae, et daemonem pessimum; the darkening of our understanding, and a bad angel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And the state runneth the danger of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur.

    The Essays 2007

  • Cap. 6. de curat.graec. affect.rap. de providentia; quotiescunque divitiis affluentem hominem videmus, cumque pessimum, ne quaeso hunc beatissimum putemus, sed infelicem, censeamus,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intra hanc Insulam, quatuor sunt genera arborum, de quarum vna accipitur farina ad panem, de secunda mel, de tertia vinum, et de quarta pessimum venenum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Intra hanc Insulam, quatuor sunt genera arborum, de quarum vna accipitur farina ad panem, de secunda mel, de tertia vinum, et de quarta pessimum venenum.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Perversum et pessimum est cor meum, ad deploranda propria peccata mea est lapideum et aridum, ad resistendum insultantibus molle et luteum, ad inutilia et noxia pertractanda velox et infatigabile, ad cogitanda salubria fastidiosum et immobile.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Perversum et pessimum est cor meum, ad deploranda propria peccata mea est lapideum et aridum, ad resistendum insultantibus molle et luteum, ad inutilia et noxia pertractanda velox et infatigabile, ad cogitanda salubria fastidiosum et immobile.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • We pass over the extravagances and gross depths to which bhakti, devotion or faith or love, may degenerate in the excitement of religious festivals -- _corruptio optimi pessimum_.

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

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  • Potentially quite a useful word.

    August 18, 2021