Wickedness

Wickedness

Wickedness, is generally considered a synonym for evil or sinfulness. Among theologians and philosophers, it has the more specific meaning of evil committed consciously and of free will.

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Famous quotes containing the word wickedness:

    “All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 7:26.

    “If weakness may excuse,
    What murtherer, what traitor, parricide,
    Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
    All wickedness is weakness: that plea therefore
    With God or man will gain thee no remission.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)