Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WICK'ED-NESS, n.

Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin sinfulness; corrupt manners. Wickedness generally signifies evil practices. What wickedness is this that is done among you. – Judge xx. But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart. Their inward part is very, wickedness. – Ps. v. In heart, ye work wickedness. Ps. lviii.