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Some private Enormities of the inquisition laid open, by a very singular occurrence.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

If the following Enormities are not amended upon the first Mention, I desire further Notice from my Correspondents.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Enormities of all kinds committed, and all their families devoted to the Fiend—all wizards or witches!

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

As to Salutations, which I was about to talk of, I observe as I strole about Town, there are great Enormities committed with regard to this Particular.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Another tells us of the Soul of a Monk fastened to a Rock, which the winds were to blow about for a twelve-month, and purge of it's Enormities.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol