Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being piacular; criminality; badness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
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- noun The quality of being
piacular ;criminality ;wickedness .
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Examples
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This notion it is hard to express in modern phrase, for we have no idea exactly corresponding to it; but in Latin it was called _piacularity_.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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This notion it is hard to express in modern phrase, for we have no idea exactly corresponding to it; but in Latin it was called _piacularity_.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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_piacularity_; which is an idea thus far like hereditary sin, that it expresses an evil to which the party affected has not consciously concurred; which is thus far _not_ like hereditary sin, that it expresses an evil personal to the individual, and not extending itself to the race.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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_piacularity_; which is an idea thus far like hereditary sin, that it expresses an evil to which the party affected has not consciously concurred; which is thus far _not_ like hereditary sin, that it expresses an evil personal to the individual, and not extending itself to the race.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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