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depraving
Word definitions for depraving in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of deprave English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deprave \De*prave"\ (d[-e]*pr[=a]v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depraved (d[-e]*pr[=a]vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Depraving .] [L. depravare, depravatum; de- + pravus crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked.] To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. And thou ...
Usage examples of depraving.
The desire of power over others can only cease to be a depraving agency among mankind, when each of them individually is able to do without it: which can only be where respect for liberty in the personal concerns of each is an established principle.
These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening its relish for sound food.
This was lookt upon as if she Prayed against what she was now justly under, and being put upon it again, and repeating those words, Hallowed be thy name, she exprest it, Hollowed be thy Name, this was counted a depraving the words, as signifying to make void, and so a Curse rather then[236] a Prayer, upon the whole it was concluded that she also could not say it, etc.