flagitous

Adjective

 * 1) * 1835,, , chapter Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, page 203:
 * This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt, were then considered as charges of the most flagitous nature.
 * 1) * 1835,, , chapter Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, page 203:
 * This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt, were then considered as charges of the most flagitous nature.