deprave

  • 91depravity — 1640s; see DEPRAVE (Cf. deprave) + ITY (Cf. ity). Earlier in same sense was pravity, from L. pravitas …

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  • 92GOUT — SECTION PREMIÈRE.     Le goût, ce sens, ce don de discerner nos aliments, a produit dans toutes les langues connues la métaphore qui exprime, par le mot goût, le sentiment des beautés et des défauts dans tous les arts: c est un discernement… …

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  • 93depraver — DEPRAVER. v. a. Corrompre, pervertir. C est un homme capable de depraver toute la Jeunesse. il s est depravé le goust à force de boire, il avoit quelque genie pour l eloquence, pour la poësie, mais la lecture des mauvais autheurs luy a depravé le …

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  • 94degeneracy — noun 1. 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 Rome had fallen into moral… …

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  • 95depravation — noun 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 Rome had fallen into moral… …

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  • 96putrefaction — noun 1. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor • Syn: ↑rot • Derivationally related forms: ↑rot (for: ↑rot), ↑putrefy • Hypernyms: ↑decay …

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  • 97Blameless — Blame less, a. Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; sometimes followed by of. [1913 Webster] A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. [1913 Webster] Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. [1913 Webster] We… …

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  • 98Corrupt — Cor*rupt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrupting}.] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [1913 Webster] 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to …

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  • 99Corrupted — Corrupt Cor*rupt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrupting}.] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [1913 Webster] 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to… …

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  • 100Corrupting — Corrupt Cor*rupt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrupting}.] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [1913 Webster] 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to… …

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