Dictionary entry

Flagrancy

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fla″gran‐cy (?), n.; pl.Flagrancies (#). [L. flagrantia a burning. See Flagrant.] 1. A burning; great heat; inflammation.

Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele.