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prettygoodwordwrongous (RONG-uhs) or - adj., wrongful, not right; unjust, illegal.
More common in British English than North American, and indeed in Scotland it's used in legal contexts, as in a wrongous imprisonment. From Middle English wrongous, altered from earlier wrongwis/wrangwis, from Old English wrongwīs/wrangwīs, meaning both wrongous and rough/uneven, from wrong/wrang, which meant exactly what you think + -wise, manner of. Compare righteous, and indeed because of that there's an alternate spelling wrongeous.
Not that there was a theme or anything this week.
---L.
More common in British English than North American, and indeed in Scotland it's used in legal contexts, as in a wrongous imprisonment. From Middle English wrongous, altered from earlier wrongwis/wrangwis, from Old English wrongwīs/wrangwīs, meaning both wrongous and rough/uneven, from wrong/wrang, which meant exactly what you think + -wise, manner of. Compare righteous, and indeed because of that there's an alternate spelling wrongeous.
Not that there was a theme or anything this week.
---L.
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Date: 2022-04-10 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-10 05:30 pm (UTC)It does!