Both Uses
enormity
in
William Wilson
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- From comparatively trivial wickedness I passed, with the stride of a giant, into more than the enormities of an Elah-Gabalus.†
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- And the very enormity of this offence against all manly and honourable sentiment proved, beyond doubt, the main if not the sole reason of the impunity with which it was committed.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(enormity as in: enormity of the crime) extreme wickedness
or more rarely (and considered incorrect by many): enormousness (largeness) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)