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Word Meanings - FLAGRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in

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1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey. 3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.

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    Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
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    Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
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    In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
  • OUTRAGEOUS
    Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
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    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
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    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • INFAMOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
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    1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
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    The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
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  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
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    Capable of being repressed.
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    Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
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    1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
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    Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
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    One who mutters.
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