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pravity|ˈprævɪtɪ|
[ad. L. prāvitās crookedness, distortion, perverseness, depravity, f. prāvus crooked, distorted, perverse. Cf. depravity, an analogical formation on this word.]
1. Moral perversion or corruption; wickedness, viciousness, depravity; original pravity or natural pravity = depravity c. Now rare or Obs.
1550Hooper Serm. Jonas Epist., To go after the prauitye and euylnes of oure owne hartes. 1618T. Adams Generation of Serpents Wks. 1861 I. 71 Original pravity is called corruption. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 5 The Pelagians, who deny Original Sin, and acknowledge not the pravity of vitiated nature. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. liii. 132 The spite of their hearts, and pravity of their dispositions. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 207 The punishment..was proportioned to the apprehended and intended consequences of the offence, not to the pravity of the offender. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. i. i. (1861) 22 The natural pravity of man is plainly asserted in Scripture.
2. gen. Corrupt or evil quality; badness.
1620Venner Via Recta iii. 64 The flesh is of a fishie sauour, which..is a note of greatest prauity. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 99 To show this progression of their favourite work, from absolute pravity to finished perfection. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 462 Blood innutritious from scarcity or pravity of food. Ibid. IV. 410 Pravity of the fluids or emunctories that open on the external surface.
†3. Deformity, crookedness. Obs. rare.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 75 Defect..whence ariseth pravity, distortion, deformity of the limbs. 1658Phillips, Pravity, crookednesse, deformity. |