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Definition of Pravity
1. n. Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
Definition of Pravity
1. Noun. (obsolete) perversion, depravity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pravity
1. wickedness [n PRAVITIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pravity
Literary usage of Pravity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Doubt not but that sin And therefore was law given them, to evince Will reign
among them as of thee begot; j Their natural pravity. ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... 67 (of Evelyn's designing), till the pravity of this •were reformed to the
temper of that ago, wherein God Almighty found his blessing more operative, ..."
3. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1844)
"AD The Process of John Trefnant, Bishop of Hereford, had against the 1391-
aforesaid William Swinderby in the cause of Heretical pravity, as the Popish ..."
4. Christianity and Modern Civilization: Being Some Chapters in European by William Samuel Lilly (1903)
"... CHAPTER VI THE INQUISITION I IN this Chapter I shall speak of the action of
the Catholic Church in respect of what is called " heretical pravity. ..."
5. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
"''Pleasure exists rather in rest than in motion, change of all things being
sweet [according to the poet] only from a principle of pravity in those who ..."
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