单词 | turpitude |
释义 | turpituden. 1. a. Base or shameful character; baseness, vileness; depravity, wickedness. 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 > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity wharfedlaikc1175 obliquity?c1425 turpitude1490 perversenessa1500 pravitya1513 pervertness1581 beastlinessa1618 depravedness1623 depravity1646 moral turpitude1660 depravation1728 miscreancy1804 pervertedness1828 obliqueness1877 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 83 In sygne of vengaunce of the dethe of hys fader, And turpytude dyshonest of clytemnestra his moder. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 241 All maner of conceites that stirre vp any vehement passion in a man, doo it by some turpitude or euill and vndecency that is in them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. vi. 33 How would'st thou haue payed My better seruice, when my turpitude Thou dost so Crowne with Gold. View more context for this quotation 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxix. 137–8 Paraphr.) 609 Those which have a natural turpitude and indispensable sinfulnesse in them. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 25 Some for their Turpitude had Shame, And Terrors of infernal Flame. 1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 261 Indignation and horror at the infatuated turpitude of some of the allied powers. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 402 The artists corrupted the spectators, and the spectators the artists, till the turpitude of the drama became such as must astonish all who are not aware that extreme relaxation is the natural effect of extreme restraint. 1879 Temple Bar Oct. 172 A career great from the historical importance of the period..but inglorious and almost without a parallel in recent times for moral turpitude and unscrupulous self-seeking. b. With a and plural. An instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil action > [noun] > instance ungooda1250 wickednessa1325 villainy1377 turpitude1597 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed misdeedeOE murderOE harmOE un-i-selthlOE ungooda1250 wickednessa1325 illa1340 untetchea1375 villainy1377 wretchednessc1380 misdoingc1460 malefice1591 turpitude1597 meschantery1634 misactiona1667 naughtiness1789 wrongdoing1874 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 28 Every Christian ought..to lament to se suche turpitudes. 1607 R. Pricket Ld. Coke his Speech & Charge sig. Ciii Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude, which doth soyle and stayne all the Actions done by him. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 71 A picture in which all deformities and turpitudes are plaistered over with the most brilliant colours. 1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. iii. 145 Temptation to a turpitude or a crime. 1913 19th Cent. Aug. 393 The minor offences and turpitudes which are condemned in the court of conscience. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] shamec725 vergoyne1484 turpitude1570 ashamedness1615 shamefacedness1641 shamefastness1646 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 157/2 The holy lawe of God forbiddeth to reueale the turpitude of thy blood or kyndred. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 157/2 Thou shalt not reueale the turpitude of thy father. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] foulnessOE uncleannessOE filthheadc1300 foulhead1340 filtha1425 filthiness?c1425 horynessc1425 uncleanliness1502 immundicity?1541 filthhood1582 dirtiness1607 slovenliness1617 muckiness1676 turpitude1684 muck1766 dirt1774 grot1971 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 719 This Medicin helps notably any cutaneous turpitude whatsoever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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