n. The condition of being pernicious; destructiveness
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The character of being pernicious, very injurious, mischievous, or destructive; hurtfulness.
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n. grave harmfulness or deadliness
Word Usage
""perniciousness" with which they were reproached was nothing else but their opposition to the established polytheism; and this view of the matter was just such an one as might be expected to occur to a mind which held the sect in too much contempt to concern itself about the grounds and reasons of their conduct."