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ˈheinousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being heinous; extreme wickedness, infamousness, atrociousness.
1563Homilies ii. Repentance ii. (1859) 537 Sorrow and grief..for the heinousness of sin. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. x. 26 The heighnousnesse of Apostacy. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 20 (1751) 112 To extenuate the Hainousness of the Rebellion. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 181 The heinousness of offences is apt to depend on accidental circumstances. |