perversionn.

Brit.

/pəˈvəːʃn/,

/pəˈvəːʒn/, U.S.

/pərˈvərʒ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s peruersion, late Middle English– perversion.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin perversiōn-, perversiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin perversiōn-, perversiō reversal of order (of words in a sentence), inversion, in post-classical Latin also falsification of a text (early 3rd cent.), turning round, depravity (late 4th cent.) < pervers- , past participial stem of pervertere pervert v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French perversion change for the worse, corruption (1444), alteration of a function (1546 in Rabelais), Spanish perversión (1427–8), Italian perversione (14th cent.). N.E.D. (1905) gives only the pronunciation (pəɹvə̄·ɹʃən) /pəˈvɜːʃən/.

a. The action of perverting or condition of being perverted; the action of turning aside from what is true or right; the diversion of something from its original and proper course, state, or meaning; corruption, distortion; (Theology) change from Christian belief or truthfulness to non-Christian belief or falsity (opposed to conversion: see conversion n. 8); apostasy. Also: an instance of perversion; a perverted or corrupted form of something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [noun]

perversiona1450

overthwarting1552

seducing1561

seducement1586

society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun]

renoirie1340

apostasyc1380

recidivationa1425

perversiona1450

pervertinga1450

relapsec1475

resiluation1513

departing1526

residuationa1535

back-starting1535

backsliding1554

abrenunciation1557

recreant1570

backslide1586

relapsing1591

recreantness1611

apostating1648

recadency1648

apostatizing1659

lapse1660

apostatism1814

renegadism1823

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > action of perverting

perversiona1450

overthwarting1552

warping1608

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > misapplication > perversion

pervertinga1450

corrupting1565

inversion1616

perversion1622

obtortion1650

corruption1654

a1450 (a1387) Prol. Comm. on Matthew 45 (MED) If the speche of holi writ seme to comaunde peruersion of soule..it is figuratijf speche.

a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 119 The grettest harme that comyth of a kynges pouerte is..to shew rigoure þer as fauour awght to be shewid and favour þer as rigour shuld be shewid, to perversion of Justice.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1854/2 Suffr[agan]. We seeke not thy bloud, but thy conuersion. Shet[erden]. That we shal see. For then wil you proue my peruersion first, before you condemne me.

1622 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1879) I. 528/2 Women to govern men,..slaves freemen,..being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

a1629 C. Cornwallis Relation Marriages Prince & Infanta in Harleian Misc. (1746) VIII. 3/1 Contrariwise, there might be great Danger of the Infanta's Perversion.

1682 M. Coppinger Poems 38 Here's no Perversion; here's the Motto too, Give God and Cæsar equally their due.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. iii. 45 Miraculous Perversions of the Course of Nature.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 211 The perversion of history, by those, who, for the same nefarious purposes, have perverted every other part of learning.

1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 138 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xi. 184 The statement was an audacious perversion of the truth.

1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. v. iv. 200 The earth being given to men in common, its invasion by private ownership is a dangerous perversion.

1993 Latin Mass (Special ed.) 13/2 The woman who walked out of one of his folk Masses loudly denouncing its ‘perversion’.

b. Sexual behaviour or preference that is different from the norm; spec. that which is considered to be unacceptable or socially threatening, or to constitute a mental illness; an instance of this.From the late 19th cent. until the mid 20th cent., medical and mental health professionals treated homosexuality, along with a number of other sexual tendencies, as a psychological problem. Homosexuality per se was removed from the standard mental health diagnosis manual in the United Kingdom in 1973, and the use of the term perversion to refer to homosexuality is now considered highly offensive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable

misaffection1621

perversion1699

sexual perversion1857

kinkiness1924

paraphilia1925

1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 188 There might be other Passions nam'd, as that of Bestiality, and of another sort of perversion of the venereal Appetite within our own Species; which are both of them in the same manner unnatural.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 178 The history of these times..imputes his attachment rather to a weakness of understanding, than to any perversion of appetite.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 203 Amongst the feathered tribe [i.e. birds], when, from perversion of appetite, sexual intercourse takes place between those of distinct genera.

1881 Chicago Med. Rev. 4 379/2 Sexual perversion, a symptom of the hereditary and degenerative mental states, is divided into four groups.

1892 D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. II. 1156/2 Sexual perversion, an innate perversion or ‘inversion’ of the sexual feelings with consciousness of its morbid nature... A passion for the sex to which the sufferer belongs, instead of the normal inclination to the opposite sex.

1949 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Three Ess. Theory of Sexuality i. 37 Extreme cases of masochistic perversion.

1996 Face Apr. 128/2 The 120 stands display the Western world's sexual insecurities, fantasies and perversions like fruit and veg on a market stall.

2. Medicine. An alteration of a physiological function such that it becomes abnormal in kind rather than in degree; (also) distortion of a body part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > disordered functioning

ataxy1670

overaction1741

excitement1788

perversion1834

stammering1844

incompetency1865

incompetence1876

hypermotility1894

hypomotility1900

hypofunction1905

hyperfunction1909

hypoactivity1910

hyperfunctioning1918

hypofunctioning1926

1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 191 The gradual diminution of sensibility and perversion of taste which so generally precede, and more or less reconcile us to death.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 693 A sensory perversion or defect.

1955 Science 9 Sept. 459/3 Fortunately, in many individuals with the obese-adult type of diabetes, such apparent perversion of function is reversible by adequate therapy.

2002 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta 1582 175 Pathological perversion of their physiological roles leads to participation of mononuclear phagocytes in fibrosing diseases.

3. Geometry. The formation of the mirror image of a figure or object; the image itself. Cf. enantiomorph n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] > (a form that is a) mirror image

looking-glass image1850

perversion1881

enantiomorph1885

mirror image1885

1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) II. 415 They are geometrically alike in all respects, except that one is the perversion of the other, like its image in a looking glass.

1900 J. Larmor Æther & Matter 208 The change from a molecule to its enantiograph involves..perversion of its orbital configuration.

1921 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 99 301 We should call the transformation a perversion or reflection rather than a rotation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	perversion
释义	perversionn. Brit. /pəˈvəːʃn/, /pəˈvəːʒn/, U.S. /pərˈvərʒ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s peruersion, late Middle English– perversion. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin perversiōn-, perversiō. Etymology: < classical Latin perversiōn-, perversiō reversal of order (of words in a sentence), inversion, in post-classical Latin also falsification of a text (early 3rd cent.), turning round, depravity (late 4th cent.) < pervers- , past participial stem of pervertere pervert v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French perversion change for the worse, corruption (1444), alteration of a function (1546 in Rabelais), Spanish perversión (1427–8), Italian perversione (14th cent.). N.E.D. (1905) gives only the pronunciation (pəɹvə̄·ɹʃən) /pəˈvɜːʃən/. 1. a. The action of perverting or condition of being perverted; the action of turning aside from what is true or right; the diversion of something from its original and proper course, state, or meaning; corruption, distortion; (Theology) change from Christian belief or truthfulness to non-Christian belief or falsity (opposed to conversion: see conversion n. 8); apostasy. Also: an instance of perversion; a perverted or corrupted form of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [noun] perversiona1450 overthwarting1552 seducing1561 seducement1586 society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] renoirie1340 apostasyc1380 recidivationa1425 perversiona1450 pervertinga1450 relapsec1475 resiluation1513 departing1526 residuationa1535 back-starting1535 backsliding1554 abrenunciation1557 recreant1570 backslide1586 relapsing1591 recreantness1611 apostating1648 recadency1648 apostatizing1659 lapse1660 apostatism1814 renegadism1823 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > action of perverting perversiona1450 overthwarting1552 warping1608 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > misapplication > perversion pervertinga1450 corrupting1565 inversion1616 perversion1622 obtortion1650 corruption1654 a1450 (a1387) Prol. Comm. on Matthew 45 (MED) If the speche of holi writ seme to comaunde peruersion of soule..it is figuratijf speche. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 119 The grettest harme that comyth of a kynges pouerte is..to shew rigoure þer as fauour awght to be shewid and favour þer as rigour shuld be shewid, to perversion of Justice. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1854/2 Suffr[agan]. We seeke not thy bloud, but thy conuersion. Shet[erden]. That we shal see. For then wil you proue my peruersion first, before you condemne me. 1622 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1879) I. 528/2 Women to govern men,..slaves freemen,..being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations. a1629 C. Cornwallis Relation Marriages Prince & Infanta in Harleian Misc. (1746) VIII. 3/1 Contrariwise, there might be great Danger of the Infanta's Perversion. 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 38 Here's no Perversion; here's the Motto too, Give God and Cæsar equally their due. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. iii. 45 Miraculous Perversions of the Course of Nature. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 211 The perversion of history, by those, who, for the same nefarious purposes, have perverted every other part of learning. View more context for this quotation 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 138 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits! 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xi. 184 The statement was an audacious perversion of the truth. 1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. v. iv. 200 The earth being given to men in common, its invasion by private ownership is a dangerous perversion. 1993 Latin Mass (Special ed.) 13/2 The woman who walked out of one of his folk Masses loudly denouncing its ‘perversion’. b. Sexual behaviour or preference that is different from the norm; spec. that which is considered to be unacceptable or socially threatening, or to constitute a mental illness; an instance of this.From the late 19th cent. until the mid 20th cent., medical and mental health professionals treated homosexuality, along with a number of other sexual tendencies, as a psychological problem. Homosexuality per se was removed from the standard mental health diagnosis manual in the United Kingdom in 1973, and the use of the term perversion to refer to homosexuality is now considered highly offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable misaffection1621 perversion1699 sexual perversion1857 kinkiness1924 paraphilia1925 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 188 There might be other Passions nam'd, as that of Bestiality, and of another sort of perversion of the venereal Appetite within our own Species; which are both of them in the same manner unnatural. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 178 The history of these times..imputes his attachment rather to a weakness of understanding, than to any perversion of appetite. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 203 Amongst the feathered tribe [i.e. birds], when, from perversion of appetite, sexual intercourse takes place between those of distinct genera. 1881 Chicago Med. Rev. 4 379/2 Sexual perversion, a symptom of the hereditary and degenerative mental states, is divided into four groups. 1892 D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. II. 1156/2 Sexual perversion, an innate perversion or ‘inversion’ of the sexual feelings with consciousness of its morbid nature... A passion for the sex to which the sufferer belongs, instead of the normal inclination to the opposite sex. 1949 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Three Ess. Theory of Sexuality i. 37 Extreme cases of masochistic perversion. 1996 Face Apr. 128/2 The 120 stands display the Western world's sexual insecurities, fantasies and perversions like fruit and veg on a market stall. 2. Medicine. An alteration of a physiological function such that it becomes abnormal in kind rather than in degree; (also) distortion of a body part. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > disordered functioning ataxy1670 overaction1741 excitement1788 perversion1834 stammering1844 incompetency1865 incompetence1876 hypermotility1894 hypomotility1900 hypofunction1905 hyperfunction1909 hypoactivity1910 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctioning1926 1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 191 The gradual diminution of sensibility and perversion of taste which so generally precede, and more or less reconcile us to death. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 693 A sensory perversion or defect. 1955 Science 9 Sept. 459/3 Fortunately, in many individuals with the obese-adult type of diabetes, such apparent perversion of function is reversible by adequate therapy. 2002 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta 1582 175 Pathological perversion of their physiological roles leads to participation of mononuclear phagocytes in fibrosing diseases. 3. Geometry. The formation of the mirror image of a figure or object; the image itself. Cf. enantiomorph n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] > (a form that is a) mirror image looking-glass image1850 perversion1881 enantiomorph1885 mirror image1885 1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) II. 415 They are geometrically alike in all respects, except that one is the perversion of the other, like its image in a looking glass. 1900 J. Larmor Æther & Matter 208 The change from a molecule to its enantiograph involves..perversion of its orbital configuration. 1921 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 99 301 We should call the transformation a perversion or reflection rather than a rotation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450
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