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Vitious

Vitious \Vi"tious\, a., Vitiously \Vi"tious*ly\, adv., Vitiousness \Vi"tious*ness\, n. See Vicious, Viciously, Viciousness.

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vitious

a. (obsolete form of vicious English)

Usage examples of "vitious".

Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong, But Justice, and some fatal curse annext Deprives them of thir outward libertie, Thir inward lost: Witness th' irreverent Son Of him who built the Ark, who for the shame Don to his Father, heard this heavie curse, SERVANT OF SERVANTS, on his vitious Race.

To offer at iniquities, which have so little foundations in thee, were to be vitious up hill, and strain for thy condemnation.

I have practised that honest artifice of Seneca, and in my retired and solitary imaginations, to detain me from the foulness of vice, have fancied to my self the presence of my dear and worthiest friends, before whom I should lose my head, rather than be vitious: yet herein I found that there was nought but moral honesty, and this was not to be vertuous for His sake Who must reward us at the last.

Persons vitiously inclined want no Wheels to make them actively vitious.