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Definition of Depravities
1. depravity [n] - See also: depravity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depravities
Literary usage of Depravities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristotle's Ethics: Comprising His Practical Philosophy by Aristotle, John Gillies (1893)
"Vice—Weakness — Ferocity—Self-command, and its contrary — Unnatural depravities,
different from vices—Voluptuousness more detestable than ..."
2. Aristotle's Ethics and Politics: Comprising His Practical Philosophy by Aristotle, John Gillies (1813)
"Unnatural depravities, different from vices. ... of gods are above virtue, and
the depravities and its op- anymore than vice to beads j the excellencies of ..."
3. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"As for me," lie adds, "whoever he may be who advises prie-ts to be silent, and
to dissemble, during the usurpation of such depravities, I doubt not that he ..."
4. Aristotle's Ethics and Politics: Comprising His Practical Philosophy by Aristotle (1797)
"Ferocity.—Self-command^ and its contrary.— Unnatural depravities, different from
vices. ... are above virtue, and the depravities of ..."
5. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"It represents the decline of Gothic architecture, and is characterized by all
kinds of depravities, while much of it is very beautiful. ..."
6. Truths from the West Indies: Including a Sketch of Maderia in 1833 by Studholme Hodgson (1838)
"... Colonial Ladies—Anecdote of one—depravities on a Plantation—Anecdote—Hints as
to what a Commission might detect—A Lottery—The Prizes—Impunity with which ..."
7. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"With an Appendix on Intermarriage, and on the Inheritance of the Tendency to
Moral depravities and Crimes. By JH STEINAU, MD, of the Royal Medical College, ..."
8. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1849)
"... (lients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities hone teen the blossom, and
danger and despair are the bitter fruit: ' radice in tartara tendit. ..."
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