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Definition of Perversity

1. Noun. Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

2. Noun. Deliberately deviating from what is good. "There will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"

Definition of Perversity

1. n. The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.

Definition of Perversity

1. Noun. The quality of being perverse. ¹

2. Noun. A perverse act ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perversity

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Perversity

pervasiveness pervasivenesses perve perved pervenous pacemaker perverse perversed perversedly perversely perverseness

perversenesses perverser perversions perversities perversity (current term) perversive pervertable pervertedly pervertedness pervertednesses

perverter perverters pervertest perverteth pervertible perverting perverts

Literary usage of Perversity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"His perversity is a natural bent toward the artificial. ... His perversity is deliberately indulged, doubtless with some theory emulative and exaggerative ..."

2. Essays from the Chap-book: Being a Miscellany of Curious and Interesting by H. H. Boyesen (1896)
"Waywardness is not the humor of this perversity, and it has more of the perverted than of the perverse. ... perversity, thus for a space restored to its ..."

3. Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-legal Study by Richard Krafft-Ebing, Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1894)
"Perversion of the sexual instinct, as will be seen from what follows, is not to be confounded with perversity in the sexual act ; since the latter may be ..."

4. Prisons and Reformatories at Home and Abroad: Being the Transactions of the by Edwin Pears (1872)
"... and without contact with other kinds of prisoners, to be admitted for special crime* not implying any great perversity ? Count A. de Foresta (Ancona). ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Catch up' — Breaking up of the Encampment — perversity of Mules — Under way — The Diamond Spring — Eccentricities of Oxen — First Glance of the Antelope ..."

6. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Catch up' — Breaking up of the Encampment — perversity of Mules — Under way — The Diamond Spring — Eccentricities of Oxen — First Glance of the Antelope ..."

7. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... LOVE'S perversity How strange a thing a lover seems To animals that do not love! Lo, where he walks and talks in dreams, And flouts us with his Lady's ..."

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