The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagrancy \Fla"gran*cy\, n.; pl. Flagrancies. [L. flagrantia a burning. See Flagrant.]
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A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.]
Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.
--Bacon. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
--Steele.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being flagrant.
Usage examples of "flagrancy".
To the immodesty rampant about him he was in the habit of closing his eyes and his ears, until the flagrancy or the noise of it grew to proportions to which he might remain neither blind nor deaf.
Gaines, hoping that the flagrancy of the case would rouse the President from his usual attitude of indifference.
It was in his eyes, a hint, not a flagrancy, the flickering ghost of unspoken knowledge.
What were only the mad flagrancies of an empress-strumpet now seemed to shake the very foundations of Rome.