wickedness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WICKEDNESS, noun Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices. What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20:3. But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart. Their inward part is very wickedness Psalms 5:4. In heart ye work wickedness Psalms 5:48.
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