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English
Adjective
flagitous (comparative more flagitous, superlative most flagitous)
- Rare form of flagitious.
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.