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# heinous

adjective

«heinous» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Job says adultery would be a heinous crime that judges must punish. The tradition reads this as Job's oath that he is innocent of that sin.

### Meaning

Very wicked and shocking, hateful in a terrible way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heinous/#m1)

### Examples

- For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges. (Writings JOB.31.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heinous/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «heinous» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heinous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«heinous» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/heinous.html) on Mova free.