Noah Webster
Villainy
VIL'LAINY, noun
1. Extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as the villany of the thief or the robber; the villany of the seducer.
The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany.
2. A crime; an action of deep depravity. In this sense, the word has a plural.
Such villanies roused Horace into wrath.