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a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 85 In the syn ȝit are twa thingis. Ane materiall, that is, fomes, that is, prauite, concupiscence and inclinacioune to syn..the secund is formale, that is [etc.].

1550 J. Hooper Ouersight Jonas Epist. To go after the prauitye and euylnes of oure owne hartes.

1561 Godly Bk. Rules Christes Souldiers sig. Ai The people are greatly dysceaued, which so busely folowe the flatterynge prauities and pleasures of this worlde.

1618 T. Adams Hapiness of Church ii. 308 Originale pravitie is called Corruption.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 5 The Pelagians, who deny Original Sin, and acknowledge not the pravity of vitiated nature.

1707 E. Welchman Duty & Reward of Charity 9 I would..be mistaken..if I thought only the Children of the Poor could be ruined thro' want of Education. No, the Children of the rich are liable..to the very same; for there is the same Original Pravity of Nature in one as the other.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lviii. 154 The spite of their hearts and pravity of their dispositions.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 207 The punishment..was proportioned to the apprehended and intended consequences of the offence, not to the pravity of the offender.

1847 H. Bushnell Views Christian Nurture 15 The natural pravity of man is plainly asserted in the scripture.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 174 Munich. Verdict unsealed. Corruption. Pravity. Famine. Mucor.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 64 The flesh is of a fishie sauour, which..is a note of greatest prauity.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 21 To shew this progression of their favourite work, from absolute pravity to finished perfection.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 714 Blood innutritious from scarcity or pravity of food.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 528 Pravity of the fluids or emunctories that open on the external surface.

1647 J. Hare St. Edwards Ghost 18 An ill-humour'd or deformed body is not rectified by nourishment, but finds its pravity to increase and dilate with itself.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 75 Defect.., whence ariseth pravity, distortion, deformity of the limbs.

1755 Accurate Descr. & Hist. Churches Canterbury & York 62 The old one, built by Roger, being like the old Nave in its ancient Pravity and Deformity; and no way answerable to the West End of the Church lately erected.

1871 tr. Cicero Tusculan Questions iv., in C. P. Krauth Conservative Reformation 392 Vitium is when the parts of the body are at variance among themselves, from which pravity of the members, distortion, deformity.