But what, by our lax modern standards seem very venial sins of Sabbath-breaking, if indeed any such sins be now recognized at all, to that generation were heinous and heaven-daring.
The Judge, then, holds that the Court will take judicial cognizance that the crime charged was the murder of the President of the United States, and a more heinous offense than the murder of a simple individual.
When I confessed, my confessions were always of a vague sort, for I was reserved on that one point which, if confessed, would have been regarded as the most heinous crime.
Suddenly I recollected a horrible criminal, who had murdered a whole family and committed other heinous atrocities, and had been executed a year or two before.
Alas, my good lord, is my crime so heinous as no redemption but my blood can wash away the spots thereof?
His crime was so heinous and so uncalled for that it was necessary for some time to elapse before an application was presented.
Confucius condemned adultery as a heinous crime, but this teaching is made to apply only to the wife.
Afterward he wrote very dutiful letters to his home, trying to explain that he felt impelled by duty to take this step, and that Christianity was not so heinous a thing as they supposed; but no answers came.
As to the other murderer, he excused himself from this journey, [208] realizing his guilt of the heinous act and fearing punishment.
The Father was not the kind to spoil his children by sparing the rod, and there was no crime in his code more heinous than falsehood.
It could have brought him very little joy for it must have seemed to him as heinous a sin as it did to me.
Vice, crime and graft are heinous offenses in the body municipal, but they are secondary to the debauchery of the ballot.
To kidnap an innocent child, to rob a fond mother of the greatest treasure God can give her, to tear away from a mother's sweet and pure embrace her own flesh and blood--that is a crime as heinous as murder.
This was a heinous offence, to come within long range of our guns; so sending a small party by the beach, I rode out myself.
The immorality, bad temper and financial mismanagement revealed at some houses would be reprehensible in all communities at all ages; but in themselves boarders, pretty clothes, pet dogs and attendance at christenings are not heinous crimes.
Murder and adultery were crimes every bit as heinous then as they are now.
Not only had he wasted time in frivolous company, but clearly he must have sunk very low to be guilty of a crime so heinous in itself, and so peculiarly wounding to a father's heart, as the one which it was plain that he had committed.
Thus they harden their minds, agitated by terror inspired by some heinous crime.
Instantly the cowhide avenges the heinous crime of the misplacing of a hair.
If you can show me no act so heinous in the whole wide world, then, I hold my tongue; nor forbid you to beat your breast with your fists, nor thump your face with open palm.
I can not endure the woman that makes her calculations, and in cold blood perpetrates a heinous crime.
Y: Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed.
Y: If ye (but) eschew the most heinous of the things which ye are forbidden to do, We shall expel out of you all the evil in you, and admit you to a gate of great honour.
According to your own statement, you appear to have been guilty of an offence as heinous as any of your previous ones.
I trust that I never, Mr. Haines, shall be guilty of so heinous a crime as sneering at a lady.
I am holding forth to you a long-winded political harangue, forgetting entirely how you hate politics, what a heinous crime I am committing, and that I weary you.
I hope, however, that you have not committed so heinous a sin as to take a Jewess to wife, for then you should not escape with the gallows, but should be burned at the stake with your cursed Jewess, your bold paramour.
Dearest mother, I know not of whom you speak, and who it is that has burdened himself with so heinous a crime.
Idleness is the most heinous sin that can be committed in Nantucket: an idle man would soon be pointed out as an object of compassion: for idleness is considered as another word for want and hunger.
At this sight Paphnutius struck his breast and said-- "I call Thee to witness, my God, that I have considered how heinous has been my sin.
He had always hated impurity, but never before had this vice appeared so heinous to him; never before had it so seemed to merit the anger of Jesus Christ and the sorrow of the angels.
The Huguenots had made the attempt at Orleans, and had not shrunk from inflicting the severest punishments, even to death, for the commission of theft and other heinous crimes.
To the one to Josiah, in which he made the heinous confession that his mind was not very clear as to the difference between Arianism and Arminianism, we have already adverted.
This act was repealed, but many features of it were embodied in an act of the following year, imposing a duty on persons convicted of heinous crimes, and preventing poor and impotent persons being imported into the province.
A lottery in full success was not heinous enough in those days, it would seem, to be credited with all the divine rebukes that it might be now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heinous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
