wickedness
part of speech
noun (wickedness — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wickedness is being very bad, cruel or evil. tree →
2) (church, Bible) In the Bible and church, wickedness means sin and doing evil against God and other people. tree →
sense in the lessons
In fairy tales and stories, the wickedness of witches, stepmothers and villains is punished in the end. In church and Bible lessons, the prophets spoke out against wickedness, and Christians believe God forgives those who turn away from it. In ethics lessons, pupils think about what makes an act wicked. Phrases: «the wickedness of», «turn from wickedness».
examples
- The witch's wickedness was finally punished. tree →
- The story is about good beating wickedness. tree →
- (Bible) In the story of Noah, God saw great wickedness on the earth. tree →
- Hurting animals for fun is pure wickedness. tree →
- (church) The vicar spoke about turning away from wickedness. tree →
- The king was famous for his cruelty and wickedness. tree →
- A great boy, out of wickedness, had eaten her up. tree →
note
Uncountable. From «wicked» + «-ness». Trap: in slang, «wicked» can mean «great» («That skateboard is wicked!»), but «wickedness» always means real evil. Strong, rather old-fashioned word.
In the corpora
- How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?'
- Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
- As saith the proverb of the ancients: Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
- For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
- O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wickedness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.