Definition of "hainous" [hainous]

• Obsolete spelling of heinous. (adjective)

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• "The best thing to come out of this is to pursue all those who have made our country no better then any other country that has pursued the hainous crime of Torture."
• "Also, many other hainous and abominable villanies doeth that brutish beastly people commit: and I sawe many moe strange things among them which I meane not here to insert."
• "Perchance for need do that which were right hainous in his sight."