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Meaning of flāgitium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
[fɫaːˈɡɪ.ti.ũː]

Definitions

  1. disgraceful or shameful action, deed, or crime; scandal
    declension-2
  2. shame, disgrace, outrage
    declension-2

Equivalents

English Outrage Scandal

Examples

“Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.”

The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.

“Quae libīdō ab oculīs, quod facinus ā manibus umquam tuīs, quod flāgitium ā tōtō corpore āfuit?”

What lust was ever absent from your eyes, what crime from your hands, what shameful act from your whole body?

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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