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Flagrancy   Listen
noun
Flagrancy  n.  (pl. flagrancies)  
1.
A burning; great heat; inflammation. (Obs.) "Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes."
2.
The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.






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"Flagrancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... it would be impossible to arouse him to any just realization of the flagrancy of his fault. Yet, she dared venture a forlorn hope that ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan

... outrageous ways[74] and with all but impunity, that a course repeatedly urged by Talfourd and myself was at last taken in the present year with the Christmas Carol and the Chuzzlewit pirates. Upon a case of such peculiar flagrancy, however, that the vice-chancellor would not even hear Dickens's counsel; and what it cost our dear friend Talfourd to suppress his speech exceeded by very much the labour and pains with which he had prepared it. ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster



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