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Definition of Perversions
1. perversion [n] - See also: perversion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perversions
Literary usage of Perversions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory by Sigmund Freud (1910)
"The Psychic Participation in the perversions.—Perhaps even in the most ...
In the study of perversions we have gained an insight into the fact that the ..."
2. ... The Sense of Taste by Harry Levi Hollingworth, Albert Theodor Poffenberger (1917)
"perversions of Taste Under certain unusual organic conditions, and also still
more commonly in the case of degenerate and neurotic individuals, ..."
3. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"CHAPTER V. perversions OP THE NATURAL AFFECTIONS. THE various perversions of the
natural affections that are so common among the lower animals, as in man, ..."
4. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"perversions of the benevolent affections. There are some singular perversions of
the benevolent affections which are worthy of notice here. ..."
5. Balance the Fundamental Verity by Orlando Jay Smith (1904)
"XV Religion has been misinterpreted and perverted — Science also has been
misinterpreted and perverted — Religion answers for its perversions as Science, ..."
6. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"perversions of the "benevolent affections. There are some singular perversions
of the benevolent affections which are worthy of notice here. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by Edward Cox Mann (1893)
"MORBID SEXUAL perversions AS RELATED TO INSANITY. ... These morbid sexual
perversions are most commonly met with in a love of the same sex in both male and ..."
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