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perverted, ppl. a.|pəˈvɜːtɪd|
[f. pervert v. + -ed1.]
Turned from the right way, from the proper use, from truth to error, etc.; wicked; distorted; misapplied.
1667Milton P.L. xii. 547 To dissolve Satan with his perverted World. 1728Young Love Fame vi, But own I must, in this perverted age, Who most deserve, can't always most engage. 1844W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ v. 113 That perverted self-consciousness which constitutes pride. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxix. 693 Exhibitions of perverted intellectual activity.
Hence perˈvertedly adv.; perˈvertedness.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 61 The idolatry..was all borrowed *pervertedly from the Israelites. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 374 All pervertedly imitate Thee, who remove far from Thee.
1828― Hist. Enq. i. p. ix, The shallowness and *pervertedness of [such] enquiries. 1881M. A. Lewis Two Pretty G. I. 209 Suffering from..the pride of intellect and from voluntary pervertedness. |