Noun

(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.

Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.

* Temple

the cankers of envy and faction

A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.

* Shakespeare

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.

An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.

An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .

An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.

Noun

(enormities)

(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.

Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot's oppression.

(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.

(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.

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* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 103:

But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.