flagrancy

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Such flagrancy was the penalty of death, who had made himself too cheap in those days; nor were there any left with him who might have said, Honour my dead father, or dead master.

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  1. Burning; inflammation; heat. Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 722.
  2. The quality of being flagrant; heinousness; atrocity.

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  • The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon—and indeed they have a plentiful harvest—I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. —  Letters of Horace Walpole, v1
  • He will get 2 instead of the usual 1 due to the flagrancy of the foul. —  du Nord
  • The Geneva Convention on Torture was written in response to heinous acts of torture being committed with such flagrancy. —  BlueOregon
  • Such flagrancy was the penalty of death, who had made himself too cheap in those days; nor were there any left with him who might have said, Honour my dead father, or dead master. —  The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
  • The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon--and indeed they have a plentiful harvest--I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. —  Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I
 

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