Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Burning; inflammation; heat.
- noun The quality of being flagrant; heinousness; atrocity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A burning; great heat; inflammation.
- noun The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
flagrant
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Examples
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The Methodists love your big sinners as proper subjects to work upon -- and indeed they have a plentiful harvest -- I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon ” and indeed they have a plentiful harvest ” I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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It looks as if a woman is spreading her legs in sexual flagrancy.
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And she writes herself the permission slip with such stunning flagrancy ...
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And again, it places the onus of sexual responsibility and flagrancy on the woman!
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No, the truly maddening thing about them is the flagrancy with which they break their own rules.
A one party state Richard 2008
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The responses to my remarks were a repeated exercise, of bizarre flagrancy, in missing the point.
The Right Wing: Supporting the Troops, As Usual « Lean Left 2008
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When people who had nothing to do with the case were so sensible of its flagrancy, people who lost money by it could scarcely be expected to deal mildly with it.
Little Dorrit 2007
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He was evidently impressed by the flagrancy of Iraq's defiance of Resolution 1441.
Aural History 2003
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He was evidently impressed by the flagrancy of Iraq's defiance of Resolution 1441.
Aural History 2003
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