单词 | depravity |
释义 | depravityn. The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] degeneration?1481 declining1526 declination1533 depravation1561 villainy1564 declension1597 depravedness1623 decadency1632 degenerateness1640 depravity1643 depravement1645 degradation1663 degeneracy1664 degenerousness1678 marasmus1681 debasednessa1720 decadencea1734 demoralization1797 downgrade1857 decadentism1949 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §7 An humorous depravity of mind. View more context for this quotation 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xcv. 311 A Depravity in the Fluids may have a great Share in producing these Symptoms. b. Perversion of the moral faculties; corruption, viciousness, abandoned wickedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] rusteOE vice1297 corrumpciona1340 infectiona1398 corruptiona1400 foulinga1400 viciousness1440 inquination1447 turpitude1490 intoxicationa1513 pravitya1513 bracery1540 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 sophistication1564 faultiness1571 depravation1577 base-mindedness1582 mangling1585 reprobacy1591 uninnocence1593 vitiosity1603 turkessing1612 reprobancea1616 debauchedness1618 tortuosity1621 depravedness1623 deboistness1628 debauchness1640 depravity1646 corruptedness1648 moral turpitude1660 unprincipledness1792 demoralization1797 erosion1804 miscreancy1804 trituration1832 unwholesomeness1881 ne'er-do-wellism1891 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity wharfedlaikc1175 obliquity?c1425 turpitude1490 perversenessa1500 pravitya1513 pervertness1581 beastlinessa1618 depravedness1623 depravity1646 moral turpitude1660 depravation1728 miscreancy1804 pervertedness1828 obliqueness1877 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. i By aberration of conceit they extenuate his depravitie, and ascribe some goodnesse unto him. View more context for this quotation 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 11 Such depravity..cannot surely exist in human nature. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 161 The winding approaches of temptation, the slippery path to depravity. 1883 J. A. Froude Origen in Short Stud. IV. iii. 300 The conscience of the ignorant masses..was rising in indignation against the depravity of the educated. c. Theology. The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin. Often total depravity.In common use from the time of Jonathan Edwards: the earlier terms were pravity and depravation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original > corruption due to depravation1577 original (also natural) pravity1618 depravement1645 depravedness1715 depravity1757 1735 J. Taylor Doctr. Orig. Sin iii. 184 Inquiring into the Corruption and Depravity of Mankind, of the Men and Women that lived in his Times.] 1757 J. Edwards Doctr. Orig. Sin i. §1 By Original Sin, as the phrase has been most commonly used by divines, is meant the innate sinful depravity of the heart. But..it is vulgarly understood in that latitude, which includes not only the depravity of nature, but the imputation of Adam's first sin. 1794 A. Fuller Lett. i. 3 July in Wks. 302 On the total depravity of Human Nature. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects at Calvinists Both the elect and non-elect come into the world in a state of total depravity and alienation from God, and can, of themselves, do nothing but sin. d. A depraved act or practice. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > instance of corruption > [noun] unthewc897 lastOE vicea1300 misthewa1325 fault1377 mistetch?c1450 depravity1641 vitiosity1643 cachexy1652 misteach1803 vileness1863 unvirtue1869 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > immoral conduct or habits > a vice or bad habit > a depraved act or practice Augean stable1596 depravity1641 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 5 Characterizing the Depravities of the Church. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiii. 122 As some Regions have their proper Vices..so have they their mental depravities, which are drawn in with the common air of their Countrey. 1808 J. Malcolm Anecd. London 18th C. (title page) Anecdotes of the Depravities, Dresses and Amusements of the Citizens of London. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1641 |
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