depravity
/dəˈpɹævɪti/ sustantivo C2En español: depravación
- The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
- A particular depraved act or trait.
- Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
Plural depravities
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Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonement in the eyes of the law.
I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me.
Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.
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