Meaning of criminalness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being criminal.

dated, rare, uncountable

Examples

“The criminalness, rebellion, transgression, the disobedience that is in sin, …”

“There is a great deal of difference as to the criminalness of false persuasions upon this account: the same error which one person may hold very pardonably, (as being, without much fault of his own, either through weakness of parts, or prejudice from education, or want or opportunity of knowing better, unavoidably, in a manner, led into it; I say, that very same error,) may be extremely dangerous in other persons, that have better parts, [...]”

“The Constitution of the United States permits the suffrage of women. . . . Under it legally constituted women—as to age, freedom from criminalness, etc.—may vote for all officers from president to township supervisor.”

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