wrongdom

An act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.

Noun

  1. An act or instance of wrong or wrongdoing; wrongness; error.
    • "I be'n a-heahin' about shu, an' I be'n skeehed dat some wrongdom was a-hatchin', […]" - 1903, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Old Squire: the romance of a black Virginian - Page 341:
    • The column had broken the first rule of Communist publications everywhere, virtually the first commandment of contemporary Marxist faith: Thou shalt not admit wrongdom within the Soviet Union. - 1971, Frank Campenni,...
    • […]—all this on a day Congressional arguments begin as to the windom or losedom, the rightdom or wrongdom of war on who-knows-whose block? - 2004, Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, The Robert Shaw Reader:

Origin

From Middle English wrongdom, wrangdome (“harm”), equivalent to wrong + -dom.