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From Middle English wrongous, for earlier wrongwis, wrangwis, from Old English wrongwīs, wrangwīs (“wrongous, rough, uneven”), equivalent to wrong + -ous (see also wrongwise). Cognate with Swedish vrångvis (“wrong, iniquitous”). See wrong, and compare righteous.
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wrongous (comparative more wrongous, superlative most wrongous)
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, especially law) Wrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. , volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 61:It’s my opinion that the creature Dougal will have a good action of wrongous imprisonment and damages again him, under the Act seventeen hundred and one, and I’ll see the creature righted.
1879, James Paterson, Reports of Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords:If the prisoner is detained an unreasonable time, he would have an action for wrongous imprisonment.
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