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Definition of Turpitudes
1. turpitude [n] - See also: turpitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turpitudes
Literary usage of Turpitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"INCREDIBLE turpitudes IN GOD IMAGINED BY MANICH^US. But now when they speak of
that part of the nature of God as everywhere mixed up in heaven, in earth, ..."
2. The Tusculan Questions of Marcus Tullius Cicero in Five Books by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839)
"... and even incests, — to all which turpitudes it has impelled, — but though you
pass them in silence, the perturbation of mind itself in this passion, ..."
3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"Certain unspeakable turpitudes believed, not without reason, concerning the
Manichaeans ... He compels to the perpetration of horrible turpitudes 364 CHAP. ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"M and turpitudes," are rich had Ion? puzzled him. l hu business of a barrister r-
... pour faire oublier ses vices et tes turpitudes, et pour subvenir à ses ..."
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