Talk:criminalness

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"The state or quality of being criminal" Ultimateria 17:36, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

There is no problem verifying it through Google Books. Was there something specific about this you thought was unverifiable?--Prosfilaes 18:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

It's in the OED (which says the term is obsolete) and lots of other dictionaries. Google news also gives a couple bona fide hits (and a number of false ones). -- Ghost of WikiPedant 20:57, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

1. Here are two quotations: — Beobach 23:06, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
   • 1655, John Owen, Vindiciae Evangelicae, published in The Works of John Owen, (William H. Goold, editor), page 515:

     The criminalness, rebellion, transgression, the disobedience that is in sin, [...]

   • 1754, John Sharp, The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Sharp, volume III, fifth edition:

     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, [...]

Smartly done, Beobach. I have transported these to the entry along with a 19th-century quotation I found. Sometimes I feel that we are kindred spirits. -- BeoPedant 01:10, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Verified and passed. DAVilla 07:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)