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  • adjective Obsolete spelling of evil.
  • noun Obsolete spelling of evil.

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Examples

  • It helpeth the blacke and yellow Jaundisse, and the evill, which is accompanied with strange feare and excessive sadnesse without any evident occasion, or necessary cause, called _Melancholia

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • For man by nature chooseth the lesser evill, which is danger of death in resisting; rather than the greater, which is certain and present death in not resisting.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Fifthly, that all evill which is inflicted without intention, or possibility of disposing the Delinquent, or (by his example) other men, to obey the Lawes, is not Punishment; but an act of hostility; because without such an end, no hurt done is contained under that name.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Obama will live to declare himself as the president and non of your evill thought will prosper

    Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico 2008

  • Anthony Dadsworth, in 1652, was dismissed for abusive carriages and misbehaviour, while Roland Wolly left in 1675 branded as a person of evill fame and of a dishonest Conversacon: the readers attitude changes when we learn that a year earlier, he had been attacked so violently by a patient that he required surgery.15 In an institution where male basketmen attended female patients, sexual assault was inevitable.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • February 29, 2008 at 5:37 am yur evill. pyoor evill. doanchoo noes dat song will bee stuk in mai hed forEVAR now?

    Noah called. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Anthony Dadsworth, in 1652, was dismissed for abusive carriages and misbehaviour, while Roland Wolly left in 1675 branded as a person of evill fame and of a dishonest Conversacon: the readers attitude changes when we learn that a year earlier, he had been attacked so violently by a patient that he required surgery.15 In an institution where male basketmen attended female patients, sexual assault was inevitable.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Anthony Dadsworth, in 1652, was dismissed for abusive carriages and misbehaviour, while Roland Wolly left in 1675 branded as a person of evill fame and of a dishonest Conversacon: the readers attitude changes when we learn that a year earlier, he had been attacked so violently by a patient that he required surgery.15 In an institution where male basketmen attended female patients, sexual assault was inevitable.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • June 16, 2008 at 3:29 am so Maus, duzznt you has a cycle-logical link wif ur evill twin?

    When they open door, u says - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Well naow 4 teh limmited pryce ov free u can becumz mai evill miniun az lung az u rizk ur lyfe to do anyfing I sai?

    As the catpoles grow - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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