Nefarious
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"Meanwhile, scattered through the plains and valleys and preserving the infamous communism of things and of women, there remained a great number of the impious, the unchaste and the nefarious impious in having no fear of gods, unchaste in their use of shameless bestial venery, and nefarious in their frequent intercourse with their own mothers and daughters."--The New Science (1725) by Giambattista Vico |
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- infamous for being wicked
- The nefarious wizard was known for burning people alive for his secret rituals.
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Etymology
From Latin nefārius (“execrable, abominable”), from nefas (“something contrary to divine law, an impious deed, sin, crime”), from ne- (“not”) + fas (“the dictates of religion, divine law”), related to for (“I speak, I say”), from Ancient Greek φημί (phemi, “I say”)
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