depravationn.

/diːprəˈveɪʃən/

/dɛprəˈveɪʃən/

Etymology: < Latin dēprāvātiōn-em, noun of action from dēprāvāre to deprave v. Compare French dépravation (16th cent. in Littré).

a. The action or fact of making or becoming depraved, bad, or corrupt; deterioration, degeneration, esp. moral deterioration; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun]

degeneration?1481

declining1526

declination1533

depravation1561

villainy1564

declension1597

depravedness1623

decadency1632

degenerateness1640

depravity1643

depravement1645

degradation1663

degeneracy1664

degenerousness1678

marasmus1681

debasednessa1720

decadencea1734

demoralization1797

downgrade1857

decadentism1949

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiv. §16 This malice which we assigne in his [the Devil's] nature, is not by creation but by deprauation.

a1667 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose The total Loss of Reason is less deplorable than the total Depravation of it.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 48 We are as secure from intentional depravations of Government as human wisdom can make us.

a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 442 If this be improvement, truly I know not what can be called a depravation of society.

1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 204 Causes of depravation..to which the language had in a measure adapted itself.

1862 C. J. Ellicott Destiny Creature (1865) ii. 26 Depravations of instincts.

b. Deterioration or degeneration of an organ, secretion, tissue, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > degeneration

depravation1661

cretification1849

histolysis1853

steatosis1860

cretifaction1873

fibrosis1873

hyalinosis1876

fibrosing1879

sarcomatosis1890

tyrosis1896

hyaline degeneration1897

amyloidosis1900

pseudoxanthoma1900

blastophthoria1908

hyalinization1919

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 334 Trembling, which is a depravation of voluntary motion.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xxviii. 119 The Beginning of the Distemper did proceed from the Corruption or Depravation of the Blood.

1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 83 Some Depravation of the Organs of the Ear.

1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 264/2 Depravation, term for a deterioration, or change for the worse; applied to the secretions, or the functions of the body.

a. The condition or quality of being depraved; corruption. Formerly, in Theology, = depravity n. c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun]

rusteOE

vice1297

corrumpciona1340

infectiona1398

corruptiona1400

foulinga1400

viciousness1440

inquination1447

turpitude1490

intoxicationa1513

pravitya1513

bracery1540

insincerity1548

corruptness1561

sophistication1564

faultiness1571

depravation1577

base-mindedness1582

mangling1585

reprobacy1591

uninnocence1593

vitiosity1603

turkessing1612

reprobancea1616

debauchedness1618

tortuosity1621

depravedness1623

deboistness1628

debauchness1640

depravity1646

corruptedness1648

moral turpitude1660

unprincipledness1792

demoralization1797

erosion1804

miscreancy1804

trituration1832

unwholesomeness1881

ne'er-do-wellism1891

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original > corruption due to

depravation1577

original (also natural) pravity1618

depravement1645

depravedness1715

depravity1757

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity

wharfedlaikc1175

obliquity?c1425

turpitude1490

perversenessa1500

pravitya1513

pervertness1581

beastlinessa1618

depravedness1623

depravity1646

moral turpitude1660

depravation1728

miscreancy1804

pervertedness1828

obliqueness1877

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Qq.iii^v/1 Originall sinne is the vice or deprauation of the whole man.

1617 tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. (new ed.) xvii. 305 Notwithstanding all this deprauation, yet the soule liueth and abideth pure and cleane in God.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 170 That by..his death..the whole bulke of our maliciousnesse, and depravation might bee so farre destroyed.

1725 R. Taylor Disc. on the Fall v. 122 A sense of the depravation of our nature, or of original sin which is in us.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 73 Their Licentiousness and Depravation of Morals visibly increased.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlv. 266 Contrasting the most exquisite charms of nature with the grossest depravation of humanity.

b. (with plural) An instance of this.

ΚΠ

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. iii. i. 46 Calling it [sc. Melancholy] a depravation of the principall function.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xii. 79 Those Leters, which the Jews now use..being but depravations of the Syriac.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 429 All the cross and disorderly things..are meer Corruptions and depravations of Nature, which free Agents have let in upon themselves.

1846 F. D. Maurice Relig. World (1861) i. iii. 71 I would by no means support a paradox..that Buddhism was the original doctrine of which Brahminism was a depravation.

†c. A depraving influence or cause. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] > cause of

corrumpciona1340

corruptiona1340

ordurec1390

ulcer1592

taint1623

corruptive1641

depravation1711

virus1778

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > corrupting > one who or that which > corrupting influence or agency

corrumpciona1340

corruptiona1340

ulcer1592

corruptive1641

depravation1711

putrefier1895

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶11 When the Dictates of Honour are contrary to those of Religion and Equity, they are the greatest Depravations of human Nature.

†3. Perversion or corruption (of a text, writing, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > of text

depravinga1500

depravation1566

vitiation1635

depravement1645

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Epist. ij You note that for Vntruthe, yea and for a foule deprauation of holi scripture which is the very saying..of S. Hilary.

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 90 The next Division hee maketh entrance into with a grosse and shamelesse Depravation [substitution of ‘any thing’ for ‘no thing’].

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 396 This is the common Reading..but if we examin it, it will be found to be a manifest Depravation.

1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. xlv This great poet..made no collection of his works, nor desired to rescue those that had been already published from the depravations that obscured them.

1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker Disputation Holy Script. 157 To persuade us of the depravation of the original scriptures.

†4. Vilification, defamation, detraction, back-biting, calumny. Obsolete. [So Italian depravazione.] Perhaps the earliest sense in English: cf. also deprave n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]

teleeOE

folk-leasinga1000

tolec1000

wrayingc1000

missaw?c1225

slanderc1290

disclanderc1300

famationc1325

noisec1325

skander1338

missaying1340

misspeecha1375

slanderingc1380

biting1382

defaminga1400

filtha1400

missaya1400

obloquya1438

oblocution?a1439

juroryc1440

defamationa1450

defamea1450

forspeaking1483

depravinga1500

defamya1513

injury?1518

depravation1526

maledictiona1530

abusion?1530

blasphemation1533

infamation1533

insectationa1535

calumning1541

calumniation?1549

abuse1559

calumnying1563

calumny1564

belying?1565

illingc1575

scandalizing1575

misparlance?1577

blot1587

libelling1587

scandal1596

traducement1597

injurying1604

deprave1610

vilifying1611

noisec1613

disfame1620

sycophancy1622

aspersion1633

disreport1640

medisance1648

bollocking1653

vilification1653

sugillation1654

blasphemya1656

traduction1656

calumniating1660

blaspheming1677

aspersing1702

blowing1710

infamizing1827

malignation1836

mud-slinging1858

mud-throwing1864

denigration1868

mud-flinging1876

dénigrement1883

malignment1885

injurious falsehood1907

mud-sling1919

bad-mouthing1939

bad mouth1947

trash-talking1974

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPPiii^v All the crymes of the tonge, as sclaunders, detractions, deprauacions, or dispraysynges.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C3^v A meere deprauation and calumny without all shadowe of truth.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 134 Stubborne Critiques apt without a theame For deprauation .

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	depravation
释义	depravationn. /diːprəˈveɪʃən//dɛprəˈveɪʃən/ Etymology: < Latin dēprāvātiōn-em, noun of action from dēprāvāre to deprave v. Compare French dépravation (16th cent. in Littré). 1. a. The action or fact of making or becoming depraved, bad, or corrupt; deterioration, degeneration, esp. moral deterioration; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] degeneration?1481 declining1526 declination1533 depravation1561 villainy1564 declension1597 depravedness1623 decadency1632 degenerateness1640 depravity1643 depravement1645 degradation1663 degeneracy1664 degenerousness1678 marasmus1681 debasednessa1720 decadencea1734 demoralization1797 downgrade1857 decadentism1949 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiv. §16 This malice which we assigne in his [the Devil's] nature, is not by creation but by deprauation. a1667 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose The total Loss of Reason is less deplorable than the total Depravation of it. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 48 We are as secure from intentional depravations of Government as human wisdom can make us. a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 442 If this be improvement, truly I know not what can be called a depravation of society. 1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 204 Causes of depravation..to which the language had in a measure adapted itself. 1862 C. J. Ellicott Destiny Creature (1865) ii. 26 Depravations of instincts. b. Deterioration or degeneration of an organ, secretion, tissue, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > degeneration depravation1661 cretification1849 histolysis1853 steatosis1860 cretifaction1873 fibrosis1873 hyalinosis1876 fibrosing1879 sarcomatosis1890 tyrosis1896 hyaline degeneration1897 amyloidosis1900 pseudoxanthoma1900 blastophthoria1908 hyalinization1919 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 334 Trembling, which is a depravation of voluntary motion. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xxviii. 119 The Beginning of the Distemper did proceed from the Corruption or Depravation of the Blood. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 83 Some Depravation of the Organs of the Ear. 1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 264/2 Depravation, term for a deterioration, or change for the worse; applied to the secretions, or the functions of the body. 2. a. The condition or quality of being depraved; corruption. Formerly, in Theology, = depravity n. c. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] rusteOE vice1297 corrumpciona1340 infectiona1398 corruptiona1400 foulinga1400 viciousness1440 inquination1447 turpitude1490 intoxicationa1513 pravitya1513 bracery1540 insincerity1548 corruptness1561 sophistication1564 faultiness1571 depravation1577 base-mindedness1582 mangling1585 reprobacy1591 uninnocence1593 vitiosity1603 turkessing1612 reprobancea1616 debauchedness1618 tortuosity1621 depravedness1623 deboistness1628 debauchness1640 depravity1646 corruptedness1648 moral turpitude1660 unprincipledness1792 demoralization1797 erosion1804 miscreancy1804 trituration1832 unwholesomeness1881 ne'er-do-wellism1891 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original > corruption due to depravation1577 original (also natural) pravity1618 depravement1645 depravedness1715 depravity1757 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity wharfedlaikc1175 obliquity?c1425 turpitude1490 perversenessa1500 pravitya1513 pervertness1581 beastlinessa1618 depravedness1623 depravity1646 moral turpitude1660 depravation1728 miscreancy1804 pervertedness1828 obliqueness1877 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Qq.iii^v/1 Originall sinne is the vice or deprauation of the whole man. 1617 tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. (new ed.) xvii. 305 Notwithstanding all this deprauation, yet the soule liueth and abideth pure and cleane in God. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 170 That by..his death..the whole bulke of our maliciousnesse, and depravation might bee so farre destroyed. 1725 R. Taylor Disc. on the Fall v. 122 A sense of the depravation of our nature, or of original sin which is in us. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 73 Their Licentiousness and Depravation of Morals visibly increased. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlv. 266 Contrasting the most exquisite charms of nature with the grossest depravation of humanity. b. (with plural) An instance of this. ΚΠ 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. iii. i. 46 Calling it [sc. Melancholy] a depravation of the principall function. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xii. 79 Those Leters, which the Jews now use..being but depravations of the Syriac. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 429 All the cross and disorderly things..are meer Corruptions and depravations of Nature, which free Agents have let in upon themselves. 1846 F. D. Maurice Relig. World (1861) i. iii. 71 I would by no means support a paradox..that Buddhism was the original doctrine of which Brahminism was a depravation. †c. A depraving influence or cause. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] > cause of corrumpciona1340 corruptiona1340 ordurec1390 ulcer1592 taint1623 corruptive1641 depravation1711 virus1778 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > corrupting > one who or that which > corrupting influence or agency corrumpciona1340 corruptiona1340 ulcer1592 corruptive1641 depravation1711 putrefier1895 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶11 When the Dictates of Honour are contrary to those of Religion and Equity, they are the greatest Depravations of human Nature. †3. Perversion or corruption (of a text, writing, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > of text depravinga1500 depravation1566 vitiation1635 depravement1645 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Epist. ij You note that for Vntruthe, yea and for a foule deprauation of holi scripture which is the very saying..of S. Hilary. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 90 The next Division hee maketh entrance into with a grosse and shamelesse Depravation [substitution of ‘any thing’ for ‘no thing’]. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 396 This is the common Reading..but if we examin it, it will be found to be a manifest Depravation. 1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. xlv This great poet..made no collection of his works, nor desired to rescue those that had been already published from the depravations that obscured them. 1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker Disputation Holy Script. 157 To persuade us of the depravation of the original scriptures. †4. Vilification, defamation, detraction, back-biting, calumny. Obsolete. [So Italian depravazione.] Perhaps the earliest sense in English: cf. also deprave n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] teleeOE folk-leasinga1000 tolec1000 wrayingc1000 missaw?c1225 slanderc1290 disclanderc1300 famationc1325 noisec1325 skander1338 missaying1340 misspeecha1375 slanderingc1380 biting1382 defaminga1400 filtha1400 missaya1400 obloquya1438 oblocution?a1439 juroryc1440 defamationa1450 defamea1450 forspeaking1483 depravinga1500 defamya1513 injury?1518 depravation1526 maledictiona1530 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 infamation1533 insectationa1535 calumning1541 calumniation?1549 abuse1559 calumnying1563 calumny1564 belying?1565 illingc1575 scandalizing1575 misparlance?1577 blot1587 libelling1587 scandal1596 traducement1597 injurying1604 deprave1610 vilifying1611 noisec1613 disfame1620 sycophancy1622 aspersion1633 disreport1640 medisance1648 bollocking1653 vilification1653 sugillation1654 blasphemya1656 traduction1656 calumniating1660 blaspheming1677 aspersing1702 blowing1710 infamizing1827 malignation1836 mud-slinging1858 mud-throwing1864 denigration1868 mud-flinging1876 dénigrement1883 malignment1885 injurious falsehood1907 mud-sling1919 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 trash-talking1974 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPPiii^v All the crymes of the tonge, as sclaunders, detractions, deprauacions, or dispraysynges. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C3^v A meere deprauation and calumny without all shadowe of truth. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 134 Stubborne Critiques apt without a theame For deprauation . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1526
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