heinousness

I think that if everybody thought, as I think, of the moral heinousness of this offence, nobody would be guilty of it.

She had it placed inside the altar rails, and fought the cure afterwards in the vestry as to the heinousness of the proceeding.

In Persia, where men bow to the king's will as to the will of a god, this crime will be seen in all its heinousness.

The sin was to be committed, and there would be no compensation to its heinousness in the way of profit to his inn.

Plutina, strong-nerved as she was, found herself shuddering as she realized the heinousness of this thing.