felonous

English

Etymology

From Middle English felenous(e), felenows, fellenouse, felonous(e), felonows(e), felonus, from Old French feloneus.

Adjective

felonous (comparative more felonous, superlative most felonous)

(obsolete) Evil, wicked.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Deliuered vp the Lord of life to die, / And did acquite a murdrer felonous […]

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