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Definition of Perversities
1. perversity [n] - See also: perversity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perversities
Literary usage of Perversities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Nor are these inadequacies and perversities limited to English. There was a good
excuse (more than at one time people used to think under the influence of ..."
2. The Scientific Bases of Faith by Joseph John Murphy (1873)
"... are other perversities of practice which cannot be Other perdue to perversions
of the sense of beauty : among which 1 ° may be mentioned the custom, ..."
3. The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman (1917)
"THE perversities OF TYPE HAT searching analyst of the soul, Edgar Allan Poe,
found among the springs of human nature the quality of perverseness, ..."
4. The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman (1916)
"THE perversities OF TYPE HAT searching analyst of the soul, Edgar Allan Poe,
found among the springs of human nature the quality of perverseness, ..."
5. History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"Nor are these inadequacies and perversities limited to English. There was a good
excuse (more than at one time people used to think under the influence of ..."
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