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wickedness (n.)

  Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Roman Apophthegms. Cato the Elder.

There is a method in man's wickedness,—

It grows up by degrees.

Beaumont And Fletcher: A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4.

  One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 463.

  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.

Old Testament: Job xx. 12.

  A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Old Testament: Psalm lxxxiv. 10.