facinorous

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Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.

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  1. Atrociously wicked. He was of such stowte stomack and haute courage, yt at the same time yt he was drawen on the herdle toward his death, he sayd (as men do reporte) that for this myscheuous and facinorus acte he should haue a name perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal. Hall, Hen. VII., an. 7. It were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous acts that could be named. B. Jonson, Epicœne, ii. 1.

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  • Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house. —  The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
  • The body of Lucrece was brought into the market place, where the people wondred at the vilenesse of that facte, euery man complayning vppon the mischiefe of that facinorous rape, committed by Tarquinius. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • ‘facinorous’ (Donne), ‘immorigerous’, ‘clancular’, ‘ferity’, —  English Past and Present
  • 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or —  In The Days
 

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  1. Early modern English also facinorus; from Old French facinoreux, facinereux = Spanish facineroso = Portuguese Italian facinoroso, from Latin facinorosus, criminal, atrocious, from facinus (facinor-), a deed, especially a bad deed, crime, villainy, from facere, do: see fact.
 

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