单词 | criminousness |
释义 | criminousnessn. The state or quality of being criminous; criminality. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > quality of being (a) criminal criminality1611 criminalty1630 criminousness1645 criminalnessa1660 piacularness1702 criminosity1727 piacularity1856 1645 H. Hammond Of Scandall 26 Even for proper-scripture-scandalls, the criminousnesse of them is not to be measured by the event. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 4 I could never be convinced of any such Criminousness in him. a1660 H. Hammond Wks. (1684) II. iv. 178 [It] supersedes all demonstrativeness of proof from this text for the criminousness of will-worship. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 521 His words had no sort of criminousness, much less of treason in them. 1874 Bp. Magee in Rep. Comm. Ch. Patronage, Evid. Quest. 31. 5 Within what limit of time would the bishop be allowed to allege criminousness on the part of a clerk? 1910 Z. R. Brockway Let. 4 Dec. in Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. (1911) 2 62 (note) No additional criminousness from criminal contact was acquired during imprisonment under their management. 1985 J. R. Hale War & Society in Renaissance Europe iii. 80 There was..no evidence that authority believed that criminousness could be channeled productively into armies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645 |
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