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单词 wickedness
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wickednessn.

Brit. /ˈwɪkᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwɪkᵻdnᵻs/
Etymology: < wicked adj.1, n., and adv. + -ness suffix.
1. The quality of being wicked; wicked character or disposition; depravity, iniquity, immorality.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]
woughc888
naughteOE
manOE
evilness1000
fakenOE
witherfulnessc1200
lithera1225
villainy?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
illa1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
iniquity13..
shrewdom13..
wickhedec1305
shrewdheadc1315
shrewdnessc1315
unwrastnessc1315
wickednessa1340
malicea1382
unequityc1384
lewdnessa1387
mischiefa1387
wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
badnessc1400
shrewdshipc1400
shrewnessc1425
ungoodlihead1430
wickdomc1440
rudenessc1451
mauvasty1474
unkindliness1488
noughtinessa1500
perversenessa1500
illnessc1500
filthiness?1504
noisomeness1506
naughtiness?1529
noughtihoodc1540
inexcellence1590
improbity1593
flagition1598
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
pravity1620
meschantnessa1630
flagitiousness1692
flagitiosity1727
nefariousness1727
bale-fire1855
ill-conditionedness1866
iniquitousness1870
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun]
woughc888
manOE
evilness1000
evilc1040
un-i-thora1200
witherfulnessc1200
mixshipc1225
quedeship?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
wickedheada1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
shrewdom13..
wickhedec1305
shrewdheadc1315
shrewdnessc1315
unwrastnessc1315
wickc1330
wickednessa1340
quedehead1340
quedeness1340
lewdnessa1387
felona1400
wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
badnessc1400
shrewdshipc1400
shrewnessc1425
wickdomc1440
noughtinessa1500
naughtiness?1529
sinfulness1530
noughtihoodc1540
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
meschantnessa1630
nefariousness1727
devilness1853
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxx. 13 Luf kelis and wickidnes brennys.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 33 Þai er..full of all maner of wickedness and malice.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 100 Clau. Disloyall? Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse . View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 5 The Wickednesse of Falshood, and Breach of Faith.
1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners 12 What tho' the Baudy runs thro' all he Writ, The more the Wickedness, the more the Wit.
a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1770) I. ix. 211 As all this arose from Infirmity, not Wickedness, they met with an easy Pardon.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 304 The unfortunate little victim..receiving sundry thumps..for having the wickedness to tell a story.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl ii. i So I reasoned in the wickedness of my heart.
2.
a. Wicked action or conduct; iniquity as committed or perpetrated; occasionally wicked speech or statement.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil action > [noun]
wonder1154
wickednessa1300
perpetrationc1429
maleficence1533
wicked-doing1535
malefaction1604
perpetrating1615
malefacture1635
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun]
sinc825
naughteOE
unnuteOE
sinningc1000
unrightOE
un-i-selthlOE
wonder1154
misguiltc1200
misdoinga1225
teeninga1225
miss?c1225
crimec1250
misdeed?c1250
wickednessa1300
mischiefa1387
evil-doing1398
mistakinga1400
perpetrationc1429
wrongingc1449
maledictionc1475
maleficence1533
wicked-doing1535
foul play1546
misdealing1571
flagition1598
delinquency1603
malefaction1604
meschancy1609
malefacture1635
misacting1651
guilt1726
flagitiosity1727
malpractice1739
malfeasance1856
peccation1861
miscreance1972
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1090 Mistrauing þan had he son, Þat he sum wikcudnes hade don.
c1393 G. Chaucer Mariage 7 I dar not writen of hyt noo wikkednesse.
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 179 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 68 Þat I sic vikitnes wald with hyr do and foulnes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 344 Causer of wer, wyrkar of wykitnes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiij Conteinyng bothe the Heresies already condemned, and also newe errours, and great wickednes.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 72 That we suld leif our wickitnes, And fle vaine warldlie appetyte.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 97 Ile neuer care what wickednes I doe, If this man come to good. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 27 For Calamity arriving [sic] from great wickedness, the best men have the least Pitty.
1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 65 The scene of an action..infamous to the French for the enormous wickedness with which they abused their victory.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 367 Persons who think that there is no excess of wickedness for which courage and ability do not atone.
1901 Besant London in 18th Cent. 237 The greatest wickedness that any man could commit, in his eyes, was not to pay his debts.
b. (with a and plural) A piece of wickedness; a wicked act or proceeding.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil action > [noun] > instance
ungooda1250
wickednessa1325
villainy1377
turpitude1597
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed
misdeedeOE
murderOE
harmOE
un-i-selthlOE
ungooda1250
wickednessa1325
illa1340
untetchea1375
villainy1377
wretchednessc1380
misdoingc1460
malefice1591
turpitude1597
meschantery1634
misactiona1667
naughtiness1789
wrongdoing1874
a1325 Prose Psalter lxxxviii[i]. 32 Y shal uisite in chasteing her wickednesses.
c1430 J. Lydgate De Prof. in Minor Poems 99 Ther wikkednessis yif thow do Observe, Tabyde thy doom yt were to hard a schour.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Amos i. C For thre and foure wickednesses of Edom I wil not spare him.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 26 He fed his eyes by being a spectator of those wickednesses, which Nero only commanded to be done.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. viii. 73 So premeditated and elaborate a wickedness.
1817 R. Southey Let. to Editor of Courier 17 Mar. That it might be published surreptitiously at any future time, was a wickedness of which I never dreamt.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xli. 109 I'd sooner do a wickedness as I could suffer for by myself, than ha' brought her to do wickedness.
3. Poorness of spirit: cf. wicked adj.1 2d. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > base cowardice
wickedness1487
dastardness1519
currishness1542
dastardliness1561
dastardy1588
poltroonery1590
beggar-fear1597
dastardice1603
poorness1625
low-spiritedness1641
poltroonism1644
sheepiness1663
cravenness1850
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 280 Gif ȝhe let cowardis And vikkidnes ȝour hertis suppris.
4. In physical sense: Malignancy, corruption: cf. wicked adj.1 2c. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter > qualities of
wickednessc1400
crudity1728
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 18 Whanne þe bodi is purgid fro wickide humouris, þe wickidnes of þe mater renneþ fro þe wounde.
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