English

Adjective

flagitous ‎(comparative more flagitous, superlative most flagitous)

1. (archaic) wicked, reprehensible
   • 1809, John Gifford, A History of the Political Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, volume 6, pages 428–429:

     The Attorney-General declared, that, without the aid of these bills, it would be impracticable to put a stop to such flagitous proceedings.

   • 1835, William Godwin, Lives of the Necromancers, chapter Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, page 203:

     This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt, were then considered as charges of the most flagitous nature.

   • 1853, Dawson Burns, Mormonism, Explained and Exposed, pages 22–23:

     It was one of the most flagitous schemes ever adopted to give party views a sacred sanction; the ‘translator’ amplifying wherever he thought an opportunity was presented for introducing latter-saint theology.

See also

• flagitious