Definition of "pessimum" []

• A worst or lowest point. (noun)

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• "This states that it is the CDF (the Vatican department that enforces orthodoxy) which must deal with the use of the confessional for sexual exploitation and with the abuse of pre-adolescent children, which is described in the document as crimen pessimum, the worst of all crimes."
• "Vinum frigidis optimum, et pessimum ferina melancholia."
• "Cap. 6. de curat.graec. affect.rap. de providentia; quotiescunque divitiis affluentem hominem videmus, cumque pessimum, ne quaeso hunc beatissimum putemus, sed infelicem, censeamus,"