Noah Webster
Villain
VIL'LAIN,
VIL'LAINOUS, adjective [from villain ]
1. Base; very vile.
2. Wicked; extremely depraved; as a villanous person or wretch.
3. Proceeding from extreme depravity; as a villanous action.
4. Sorry; vile; mischievous; in a familiar sense; as a villanous trick of the eye.
Villanous judgment, in old law, a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person.