flagrancy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLA'GRANCY, noun [See Flagrant.] 1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. obsolete Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. 2. Excess; enormity; as the flagrancy of a crime.
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