Crossword clues for depravity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depravity \De*prav"i*ty\, n. [From Deprave: cf. L. pravitas crookedness, perverseness.] The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism.
Syn: Corruption; vitiation; wickedness; vice; contamination; degeneracy.
Usage: Depravity, Depravation, Corruption. Depravilty is a vitiated state of mind or feeling; as, the depravity of the human heart; depravity of public morals. Depravation points to the act or process of making depraved, and hence to the end thus reached; as, a gradual depravation of principle; a depravation of manners, of the heart, etc. Corruption is the only one of these words which applies to physical substances, and in reference to these denotes the process by which their component parts are dissolved. Hence, when figuratively used, it denotes an utter vitiation of principle or feeling. Depravity applies only to the mind and heart: we can speak of a depraved taste, or a corrupt taste; in the first we introduce the notion that there has been the influence of bad training to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principle to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principles to decide. The other two words have a wider use: we can speak of the depravation or the corruption of taste and public sentiment. Depravity is more or less open; corruption is more or less disguised in its operations. What is depraved requires to be reformed; what is corrupt requires to be purified.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement. 2 (context countable English) A particular depraved act or trait. 3 (context uncountable Christian theology English) inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
WordNet
n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity" [syn: corruption, degeneracy]
a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: turpitude]
Wikipedia
Depravity is the second full-length release by deathcore band A Plea for Purging. It was released on hardcore and metal label, Facedown Records and was produced by Joey Sturgis ( The Devil Wears Prada, Attack Attack!). The album received generally positive reviews.
Depravity may refer to:
- Total depravity, a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian concept of original sin
- Lack of morality
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Sin, an act that violates a known moral rule
- in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish_views_on_sin#Terminology
- Depravity (album), an album by A Plea for Purging
Usage examples of "depravity".
Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commercial societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalitarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill.
The cosmopolitan Antiochenes returned the compliment, regarding Romans as mere duffers in depravity, philistines in art, but capable in war and government, and consequently to be feared, if not respected.
The boys begged to stay with Master Li and continue their lives of crime, but he advised them to remain in school and study hard so they could mastermind the mobs when they descended into depravity.
A Pagan magistrate, who possessed neither leisure nor abilities to discern the almost imperceptible line which divides the orthodox faith from heretical depravity, might easily have imagined that their mutual animosity had extorted the discovery of their common guilt.
I cannot stop remembering how she welcomed the carnal depravity that Dracula brought to our bed.
If he is faithful to the fashions of the day, he earns the repute of artistic depravity in the eyes of the next generation.
In the majority opinion, any Mongol who becomes a Kalmuk is doomed to degeneracy and depravity, and if the Kalmuk people I saw and smelled were typical, then the majority have good reason to despise them.
Nearly always I moved silently among the merrymakers observing as they sank into gluttony, drunkenness and debaucheries of the most unspeakable depravity.
It demonstrates the absolute depravity of the Nonintervention Protocol.
Ham is but to concede the total moral depravity of the entire human race, as emanated from Noah in the postdiluvian age.
Those who have seen him lately say that to every man he met he had been cursing the rottenness and the depravity of our Tendai priesthood.
It was a relationship that had its foundation in a mutual depravity and lust, but which the Wests imagined to be love.
She looked at me, smiling, and I could easily understand the language of her soul, by which she wished to tell me that she felt perfectly well the difference between the society in which she was then, and that in which her brother had given us such a disgusting specimen of his depravity.
The reason for all these vehicles was the vast number of his procurers and bawds, harlots, catamites and lusty partners in depravity.
Occasionally, after one of his darker dreams, he would feel a carryover of guilt or depravity flowing like ichor through dull veins, but even that would soon be gone.