2. Noun. (slang) the evil eye ¹
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Definition of Evils
1. evil [n] - See also: evil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evils
Literary usage of Evils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"But it is good that evils should come; for Augustine says in the Enchiridion: 'Although
those things which are evils, in so far as they are evils, ..."
2. Housing Reform: A Hand-book for Practical Use in American Cities by Lawrence Veiller (1910)
"Rapidly from this point develop the evils of cellar dwellings, ... The causes
for these evils are not to be found in any one thing but are to be traced ..."
3. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"tire evils. On the other hand, as to the evil of the offence, (Thee«i o» this
will also, of course, be greater or less, accord- ] ing to the nature of each ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The really serious evils of India as felt by the masses are three in number. ...
With the removal or diminution of these three evils, and a few adjustments ..."
5. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"that the book which did much to help out of the world LONDON : the social evils
it pourtrayed, will probably preserve longest the picture of them as they ..."
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