VIL'LAINY, noun 1. Extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as the villany of the thief or the robber; the villany of the seducer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany. 2. A crime; an action of deep depravity. In this sense, the word has a plural. Such villanies roused Horace into wrath.
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