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Definition of Pravities
1. pravity [n] - See also: pravity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pravities
Literary usage of Pravities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1843)
"... peril of the king as of ourself, have publicly condemned those pernicious—"
customs" they are not ta be called, so much as—perversities and pravities, ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"The archbishop and his partizans are fond of speaking of 'the so-called customs/
as ' pravities' and ' abuses;' but they will not meet the king on his own ..."
3. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of by Thomas Jefferson (1900)
"... pravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage.
The justices of the inferior courts are self-chosen, are for life, ..."
4. Essays and Reviews by Edwin Percy Whipple (1853)
"... pravities of Congreve and Wycherly, when virtue was a jest, and piety the mark
of a despised Puritan; but they are permeated with a power to which those ..."
5. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Why doth man blame the manners, and the times, Imputing to their pravities his
crimes ? The Golden Fleece, 1657. Oven's Epigrama, 1677. ..."
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