vileness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VI'LENESS, noun 1. Baseness; meanness; despicableness. His vileness us shall never awe. 2. Moral baseness or depravity; degradation by sin; extreme wickedness; as the vileness of mankind.
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