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Definition of Perverting
1. pervert [v] - See also: pervert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perverting
Literary usage of Perverting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"That would be an argument for amending the Constitution, not for perverting it.
These amendments were passed for a state of war as well as a ..."
2. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"'From whence it follows, that the best way to secure ourselves from thus perverting
what is obscure in Scripture is, first, to render ourselves learned and ..."
3. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Gospels by Albert Barnes (1847)
"68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go. him, saying, We
found this fellow * perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute ..."
4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"perverting the continuance or renewal of ¡ a priest who is often incestuous, a
mur- most of the things that were done in that > derer, and a poisoner ? ..."