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Webster 1828 Edition


Viciousness

VI'CIOUSNESS

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Noun.
1.
Addictedness to vice; corruptness of moral principles or practice; habitual violation of the moral law, or of moral duties; depravity in principles or in manners.
What makes a governor justly despised, is viciousness and ill morals.
2.
Unruliness; refractoriness; as of a beast.