Noun: evilness
| Singular | evilness |
| Plural | evilnesses |
Sample Sentences
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[…] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men. [1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church:]
Nouns inflected like evilness
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness. See: Middle English Nouns '
yvelnesse', Old English Nouns '
yfelnyss'.