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Vice \Vice\, n. [F., from L. vitium.] A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. Withouten vice of syllable or letter. --Chaucer. Mark the vice of the procedure. --Sir W. Hamilton. ...
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Iniquity is wickedness or sin . In biblical terms, it is a violation of God's moral law, which can be described as perversity. It may also refer to: Iniquity (band) , a Danish death metal group established in 1989 Iniquity , a 2008 album by the American ...
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n. absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: wickedness , darkness , dark ] morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil , immorality , wickedness ] an unjust act [syn: injustice , unfairness ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES den of iniquity ▪ A real den of iniquity it's divided up into several little catacombs. ▪ Cranston loved this place, a veritable den of iniquity but one which sold good ales, fine wine and delicious food. ▪ Well we've got ...
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The English, despite the fact that they are in the doctrine of faith alone, nevertheless in the exhortation to the Holy Communion openly teach self-examination, acknowledgment, confession of sins, penitence and renewal of life, and warn those who do not do these things with the words that otherwise the devil will enter into them as he did into Judas, fill them with all iniquity, and destroy both body and soul.
For it is not want the avenger of iniquity, nor the adverse fortune of your parents, nor violent necessity that has thus oppressed you with beggary, but a devout will and Christ-like election, by which ye have chosen that life as the best, which God Almighty made man as well by word as by example declared to be the best.
If he had been told that Cosmo Cupples had more than once, after the first tumbler of toddy and before the second, betaken himself to his prayers for his poor Alec Forbes, and entreated God Almighty to do for him what he could not do, though he would die for him--to rescue him from the fearful pit and the miry clay of moral pollution--if he had heard this, he would have said that it was a sad pity, but such prayers could not be answered, seeing he that prayed was himself in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.
But not, his recent encounter on Repler with the disreputable drugger and emoman Dominic Rose notwithstanding, the full wickedness and inventive iniquity of which humankind and others were capable.
Boastful of his own iniquity, swaggering in his wickedness, fatuous with self-love, he recounted his deeds with gusto and with particularity.
This did not prevent her being a confused, entangled, inconsequent, discursive old woman, whose charity began at home and ended nowhere, whose credulity kept pace with it, and who knew less about her fellow-creatures, if possible, after fifty years of humanitary zeal, than on the day she had gone into the field to testify against the iniquity of most arrangements.
Foissac gives various strange examples of the persistent, inexplicable, fundamental, pre-ordained, irreducible iniquity in which many existences are steeped.
Capri--your lazzarone confesses himself to be neither more nor less than the commander of that worker of iniquity, le Feu-Follet.
Art should ennoble, Langbehn said, so that naturalism, realism, anything which exposed the kind of iniquities that a Zola or a Mann drew attention to, was anathema.
His followers refer to him also as the Scourge of the All-Powerful, the Right Fist of the Invincible, the Purger of Iniquities, and the Defender of Virtue and Justice.
Truly, the evil ravaging the land flows from your iniquity alone, and from the wickedness of your reign.
Maia, who not unnaturally felt herself to have gained a good deal in poise and self-confidence since the days of Sencho, replied to him with what she hoped was restraint and assurance about her own health, the water-ways of Suba, the iniquities of the Chalcon rebels and the certainty of their early defeat by Elvair-ka-Virrion.
Table, says you, till there is public confession of some unkenned iniquity.
For Ippolit is revolting not against the iniquities of a social order but, anticipating Kirillov and Ivan Karamazov, against a world in which death, and hence immitigable human suffering, is an inescapable reality.
Glorianna Belladonna was the Landscaper who had created the Den of Iniquity.