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Definition of Depravations
1. depravation [n] - See also: depravation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depravations
Literary usage of Depravations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"These passions are depravations; to style them " natural" is as a fact correct:
because they are so human nature stands itself condemned as evil; ..."
2. An Examination of the Primary Argument of the Iliad by Granville Penn (1821)
"We know, that our own Sacred Scriptures, parts of which are of considerably higher
antiquity than the poems of Homer, have not escaped similar depravations; ..."
3. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1813)
"Dr. Barnard, Mr. Lind- sey, bis . .MI infirmities, 304. Mr. Bowyer's relinquishing
the design of publishing the Now Testament, depravations therein ; Dr. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1872)
"Lut she is a great many otlu r things besides—she is the home of much blindness
and many depravations ; and these it is not the part of the poet and prophet ..."
5. American Literary Criticism, Selected and Ed.: With an Introductory Essay by William Morton Payne (1904)
"In fact, they held literature, in its noblest Elizabethan manifestations, to be
chief among those depravations that they were seeking to escape. ..."
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