Pravity
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Perversion, depravity; wickedness. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Doubt not but that sin Will reign among them, as of thee begot; And therefore was law given them, to evince Their natural pravity, by stirring up Sin against law to fight[…]."
Example
More examples"Doubt not but that sin Will reign among them, as of thee begot; And therefore was law given them, to evince Their natural pravity, by stirring up Sin against law to fight[…]."
Etymology
From Middle French pravité, and its source, Latin prāvitās (“crookedness; depravity”), from prāvus (“prave”).
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