heinous (adj.) Old form(s): heynous
calamitous, terrible, severe
KJ III.iv.90[Cardinal Pandulph to Constance] You hold too heinous a respect of grief
KJ IV.iii.56[Pembroke to all, of Arthur's apparent murder] Shall ... prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, / Exampled by this heinous spectacle
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