wrongnessn.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 534/2 Wrongnesse, of werke,..curvitas.

c1475 Promptorium Parvulorum 433/2 (K.) Ryth, with owtyn wrongnesse, rectus.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. 306 There was a Probability, if he could see the whole Reference of the Parts appearing wrong to the general Design, that this would destroy the Appearance of Wrongness and Disproportion.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1847) II. 365 Though not right in itself, it may become right by the greater wrongness of the only alternative—the remaining in neediness and uncertainty.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 39/2 This is indeed a time when right Education is, as nearly as may be, impossible: however, in degrees of wrongness there is no limit.

1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. v. 10 The Botanical lecturer was, to the extremity of wrongness, wrong.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 2/1 Her gown, even her gloves—everything that could be wrong was wrong, with the worst of all wrongness.

1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. ii. 100 Malice, envy, falsehood, injustice, irrespective of their wrongness [etc.].

1843 E. Miall in Nonconformist 3 1 As if a man's sense of rightness and wrongness were nothing.

1851 H. Spencer Social Statics x. §1. 128 To determine the rightness or wrongness of certain actions.

1881 Gentleman's Mag. 250 164 When nature..is..chastising us right and left for our wrongness, it is no time to sit at ease.