Definition for VI'COUS-NESS

VI'COUS-NESS, n.

  1. Addictedness to vice; corruptness oi moral principles or practice; habitual violation of the moral law, or of moral duties; depravity in principles or in man. Tiers. What makes a governor justly despised, is viciousness and ill morals. South.
  2. Unruliness; refractoriness; as of a beast. New England.

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