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单词 depravity
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depravityn.

/dɪˈpravɪti/
Etymology: An extension of pravity n. ( < Latin prāvitās) previously used in same sense, after deprave n. and its derivatives. (No corresponding form in Latin or French.)
The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt.
a. Perverted or corrupted quality. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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