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perversity|pəˈvɜːsɪtɪ|
[a. F. perversité (12th c. in Littré), ad. L. perversitās, f. pervers-us perverse a.]
The quality or character of being perverse: = perverseness.
1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 55 He hath falce farises and scrybes,..Full of fraudes and perversite. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Titus iii. 31 b, An errour commynge onelye of the fraylenes of man, is remedied by one or two warnynges, but peruersitie is incurable and made worse by puttyng to of remedies. 1687Norris To Dr. Plot on Staffordsh. i, What strange Perversity is this of Man! When 'twas a Crime to tast th' inlightning Tree He could not then his hand refrain. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iv, It is in this peculiarity..that all these short-comings, over-shootings, and multiform perversities, take rise. 1865Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 2/2 The most flagrant instances of juratorial perversity. 1871R. Ellis Catullus Pref. 9 The experiments of the Elizabethan writers [in classical metres]..by that strange perversity which so often dominates literature, were as decidedly unsuccessful from an accentual, as the modern experiments from a quantitative point of view. |