What is "depravities"

Usage examples of "depravities".

It is practiced only for power and greed, and the depravities of its execution know no bounds.

We came to refer to these as the 27 Depravities, like some reckoning of hollow-cheeked church theologians.

Brother Verber found himself increasingly interested in how one went about all those depravities, but he reminded himself he was doing it only to protect those members of his flock who'd strayed right off the path of righteousness and were down in the ditch of despair.

Everything he'd done was to save the mortal souls of his flock, to prepare himself to meet their impending depravities and do battle with the devil, if and when he was called on to do so.

Otherwise, she would not suffer shame at all, because no recollection of these depravities or those of other nights would remain.

Because the pink lady contended that she had been brainwashed by Mark Ahriman and subjected to sexual depravities, she resorted to a plea of self-defense.

Otherwise, she would not suffer shame at all, because no recollection of these depravities or those of other nights would remain.

After his death, and Caleb’s subsequent fury at learning of his parents’ depravities, he had become one of the Breed’s staunchest allies.

Elmo, which breathlessly announced Miss Augusta Jane Evans’s discovery of human qualities in the poor and inhuman depravities in the wealthy.

Even more depravities of Nero are portrayed in the sources, such as his attacking, like an animal, the genitals of nude men and women bound to stakes (Suetonius, Nero, xxix.