sinfulness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English synfulnes, synfulnesse, synnefulnysse, equivalent to sinful + -ness. Compare Old English synniġness (“sinfulness”).

The tract was one of a series addressed to young women on the sinfulness of dress. — The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
But now--now she yielded to the subtle charm of them--the wild pleasure of their very sinfulness. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore
You are different from other children, Esther, because you were not born, like them, in common sinfulness and wrath. — Bleak House, Charles Dickens

sin, wickedness

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