the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A burning; great heat; inflammation.
n. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Burning; inflammation; heat.
n. The quality of being flagrant; heinousness; atrocity.
Word Usage
"The Methodists love your big sinners as proper subjects to work upon -- and indeed they have a plentiful harvest -- I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion."