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  • noun Plural form of wickedness.

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Examples

  • The wicked are not reliable because by nature they are full of wickedness, or literally, "wickednesses," of every kind (Ro 8: 7). sepulchre -- a dwelling-place of corruption, emitting moral putridness. flatter -- or, "make smooth." their tongue -- speaks deceitfully.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • "We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickednesses."

    Elizabeth Cunningham: Becoming a Prayer 2010

  • The larger view always and through all shams, all wickednesses, discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The larger view always and through all shams, all wickednesses, discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good.

    The Octopus 2008

  • Dear son, freely give power to persons of good character, who know how to use it well, and strive to have wickednesses expelled from your land, that is to say, nasty oaths, and everything said or done against God or our Lady or the saints.

    Archive 2008-04-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Dear son, freely give power to persons of good character, who know how to use it well, and strive to have wickednesses expelled from your land, that is to say, nasty oaths, and everything said or done against God or our Lady or the saints.

    St Louis IX, letter to his Son de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Some act out of the highest motives, yet commit the most appalling wickednesses.

    Remembering Our Dead Zoe Brain 2007

  • Dear son, freely give power to persons of good character, who know how to use it well, and strive to have wickednesses expelled from your land, that is to say, nasty oaths, and everything said or done against God or our Lady or the saints.

    Letter of King St Louis IX to his son Philip de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Dear son, freely give power to persons of good character, who know how to use it well, and strive to have wickednesses expelled from your land, that is to say, nasty oaths, and everything said or done against God or our Lady or the saints.

    Archive 2007-10-21 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Yet, did I think a little sweet impudence came into her, as I told her concerning her wickednesses.

    The Night Land 2007

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