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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Enormité, -itie, n. Also: en(n)ormyté, enormeté, -ytie. [Late ME. enormyté (1475), OF. enormité, L. ēnormitas. Cf. Innormité n.]

1. Excessive wickedness or wrong. a1400 Leg. S. x. 575.
Nothire for the ennormyte Of the syne, na the quantyte c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5354.
Wo to Papis, I say for me, Quhilk sufferis sic enormitie

2. An outrageous, wrong, or criminal act. 1445 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 14.
For letting of diuerse enormyteis done in time bygane be the abbotis of this burgh c 1500 Justiciary Rec. (Reg. H.) 154.
[To] caus all enormiteis and crymis comittit in tymes bygane to be refoundit and remeidit within ȝour boundis 1531 Bell. Boece I. 166.
Seing thair king … reddy to reforme al enormiteis of his realm 1568 Pref. Lyndesay 9.
As he hes bene scharp and vigilant in marking the enormiteis of the spiritualitie a1578 Pitsc. I. 30/23.
Dyueris vtheris that pleinȝeit vpone the enormiteis that thay sustenit, gat litill or na redres 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 240.
For the greitt enormities done be James Young, officer, … [the council] depryves him of the said office 1622-6 Bisset II. 216/14.
The cheif admirall … sall have jurisdictioun … of all faultis, crymes, and enormyties committed induring the wear