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Definition of Depraving
1. deprave [v] - See also: deprave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depraving
Literary usage of Depraving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"depraving THE LORD'S SUPPER. 1 Every one commits a misdemeanor who depraves,
despises, or contemns the sacrament of the supper and table of the Lord, ..."
2. James Mill: A Biography by Alexander Bain (1882)
"In conclusion, the author intimates that he has yet to overtake the further
effects of an Established Church in depraving both religion and morality, ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Secondly, the poets were further guilty of depraving the order more easily to
delude the people, having assigned to each its own ..."
4. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"... which ceased not, in carping and depraving the nobles, to inflame the king's
hatred and grudge against them. Foxe, Book of Martyrs, an. 1312. II. ..."
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