[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being flagitious.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., i. 3. The Corruption and Flagitiousness of Life which naturally attend it.
1750. Student, I. 176. A and others would intentionally avoid all acts of flagitiousness and villany.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IV. VII. ii. 72. His extravagant and monstrous charges dwelt on the early life of Gregory, on the bribery and violence by which he had gained the Papacy, the licentiousness, the flagitiousness of his life as Pope, his cruelty, his necromancy.
