单词 | wrongdoing |
释义 | wrongdoingn. The action of doing wrong or amiss, or the fact of wrong being done. 1. Transgression of or offence against the moral or established law; reprehensible action or behaviour; evil-doing, misdoing; misconduct.Rare before 19th cent. In frequent use from c1860. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > violation of law unlawOE wrongc1270 surfeitc1400 violation1433 wrongdoing1480 unlawfulnessa1500 transgressing1535 contravention1579 anomy1595 non-reason1597 contravening1645 law-breaking1881 1480 Coventry Leet Bk. 444 The Priour & Couent..desiren restitucion of such wrongedoyng. a1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 July in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1352/1 He that is so obstacle and vntractable in wickednes and wronge doing. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 1355 To withstand the doing of wrong; to be against wrong doing, obsistere injuriæ. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wrong-Doing, evil or wicked act or action. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 10 The idea of honour is such as to exclude all fear, except of wrong-doing. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. lxxv. 25 It is the rule of heaven, that wrong-doing shall bring sorrow. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxii. 206 To act [thus]..would have been to betray uneasiness and confess wrongdoing. 2. A wrongful or blameworthy action. ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [noun] unrightOE witec1175 misbodea1200 misguiltc1200 misdoinga1225 miss?c1225 trespassinga1340 forfeiturec1380 offensiona1382 crimec1384 abusion?1387 evil-doing1398 mistakinga1400 offendinga1425 transgression1426 wrongingc1449 digression1517 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 swerving1545 misdealing1571 transgress1578 misfaring1595 misacting1651 malpractice1739 malfeasance1856 wrongdoing1874 miscreance1972 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed misdeedeOE murderOE harmOE un-i-selthlOE ungooda1250 wickednessa1325 illa1340 untetchea1375 villainy1377 wretchednessc1380 misdoingc1460 malefice1591 turpitude1597 meschantery1634 misactiona1667 naughtiness1789 wrongdoing1874 1874 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) i. 21 A wrong-doing of which it felt no guilt. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 245 [She] seemed to have suffered for every body else's wrong~doings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wrongdoingadj. rare. That does wrong, harm, or ill; prone to or committing wrongful actions. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [adjective] misfaringc1300 fayllarda1325 wronga1382 wrongfulc1384 misdoinga1398 misdeedya1400 wrongdoingc1400 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 offending1552 exorbitant1556 offensive1595 transgressive1646 maleficent1760 transgredient1837 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > doing wrong misdoinga1398 misdeedya1400 wrongdoingc1400 maleficent1760 c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) xxxi. 23 Þat te celeresse sal..be meke, and sobur, and noht..noius, ne wrangdoande [L. injuriosus]. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 480 The..violent Will of the wrong-doing Great. 1901 Daily News 3 Jan. 6/1 The populations of wrong-doing cities must pay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1480adj.c1400 |
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