Moral decline or decay; corruption. Now only in sense A. 2b.

Depravity or corruption of morals; evil, immoral, or wicked habits or conduct; indulgence in degrading pleasures or practices.

An early by-form of corruption, n.: cf. corrump, v.

Moral contamination; corruption of character or habits by evil influences; an instance of this.

A making or becoming morally corrupt; the fact or condition of being corrupt; moral deterioration or decay; depravity.

The action of making something dirty, polluted, or disfigured; the process of becoming encrusted or clogged up with dirt. Also figurative (esp. in…

Inclination or addiction to vice or immorality; depravity of life or conduct.

The action of polluting, defiling, or corrupting; polluted condition. Also (with an and plural), a defilement, a defiling agent. literal and figur…

Base or shameful character; baseness, vileness; depravity, wickedness.

figurative. The action of corrupting a person morally or spiritually; a cause or occasion of this. Obsolete.

Moral perversion or corruption; wickedness, depravity; an instance of this. Now archaic.

Embracery, corruption.

Want of purity, corruption. Obsolete.

The quality of being corrupt; corruption.

Disingenuous alteration or perversion of something; conversion into some less genuine form; the alteration of a literary text in the course of…

The quality or state of having moral blemishes, of being in fault or to blame; depravity, viciousness, culpability, guilt.

The condition or quality of being depraved; corruption. Formerly, in Theology, = depravity, n. c.

= baseness, n. 4.

The action of mangling something (mangle, v.1); an instance of this.

The state or condition of being reprobate.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6.)

The state or character of being morally vicious.

= reprobacy, n.

The state or quality of being debauched.

figurative. Mental or moral crookedness: cf. tortuous, adj. 2.

Depraved or corrupt quality or condition; depravity.

Debauchedness.

The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt. Perversion of the moral faculties; corruption, viciousness, abandoned wickedness.

wickedness or depravity of character or conduct.

The action of undermining the morals or moral principles of a person, group, etc., or of weakening the beneficial moral influence of a given state…

transferred and figurative. Also concrete.

Villainy, depravity; an instance of this. Also in weakened sense: bad behaviour, delinquency.

The action or process of triturating; reduction to fine particles or powder by friction; comminution, pulverization. figurative.

Lack of moral wholesomeness; viciousness.

disreputable, good-for-nothing behaviour.