deprave

• At last they agreed to a compromise, and the verdict delivered was: “We are unanimously of opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.” —  Autobiographical Sketches
• Much, too, of this intact purity of heart may be ascribed to the lessons of his infancy under the paternal roof; to the gentle, benevolent, elevated, unworldly maxims of his father, who “passing rich with forty pounds a year,” infused a spirit into his child which riches could not deprave nor poverty degrade. —  Oliver Goldsmith
• The moon was thin and cloud-ridden, yet the Major led the Company unerringly across difficult country. —  Sharpe's Gold
• Should man deprave, and should not God deprive? —  England's Antiphon
• We were prepared, if the defendants had announced openly in this Court that having acted in error as the jury found — of which finding I think they are entitled to the benefit — but still having been, after a fair and impartial trial, found by the jury guilty of doing of that which was an offence against the law, they were ready to submit to the law and to do everything in their power to prevent the further publication and circulation of a work which has been declared by the jury to be a work calculated to deprave public morals, we should have been prepared to discharge them on their own recognizances to be of good behavior in the future. —  Autobiographical Sketches

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