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immorality|ɪmɒˈrælɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity, after morality.]
1. Immoral quality, character, or conduct; violation of moral law; wickedness, viciousness. (Now often used specifically of sexual impurity.)
c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World N viij, From thence the immorralitie and lingring of proces do procede. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. Apol. 533 Simply to speak what is false has no immorality at all in it. Other⁓wise no Man might dispute or pronounce a false Axiome. 1697Collier (title) A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1879Froude Cæsar ii. 11 The educated Greeks..had no horror of immorality as such. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 29 The distinction society draws between immorality in women and immorality in men is monstrous:..to assume, as men often do, that immorality is a glory to them, whilst it is a disgrace to women, is absurd.
2. with an and pl. An instance or species of this; an immoral act or practice; a vice.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 70 The immoralities..that thou dost towards men, in scandalizing them, by thy sins. 1751–73Jortin Eccl. Hist. (R.), The writing of books or epistles under borrowed names, and imposing them as genuine upon the public, is..an immorality. 1859Lang Wand. India 276 Deceit and falsehood are not regarded as immoralities in the eyes of Asiatics. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. viii. 162 Injustice is of all immoralities not the one most easily condoned. |