depravity

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
There are some who pretend to be so learned, in what they call the depravity of human nature, that, after having heard you speak thus admirably in favour of virtue, they would think it more than an equal chance that you are one of the wickedest of men Oh, with respect to that, some of my very neighbours do not scruple to affirm that I am so.

View all »
Definitions (10)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun Moral corruption or degradation.
  2. noun A depraved act or condition.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • There is no good term for this form of moral depravity, arguably worse than deliberate murder, and all too familiar. —  MyAntiwar.org
  • Fearful of an epidemic, the government confines the blinded citizenry to asylums, which quickly sink into depravity -- because many of the newly blind are completely helpless, and the ones who aren't become thieves and brutes to take advantage of them. —  About.com Parenting Special Needs
  • This is what he did with the men living in the Land Promised to Abraham: the Jewish People had to wait 400 years in slavery while those inhabiting the land reached the fullness of their depravity, at which time, God brought the Jews back out of Egypt and told them to kill all in the previous inhabitants of the Promised Land. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • San Francisco bathhouses provide a similar learning environment. firmly and repeatedly condemns homosexual depravity, and for good reason, as the AIDS epidemic has illustrated. —  Moonbattery
  • To hear evangelicals like Dallas Willard and Richard Foster tell us that we need practices that were never spelled out in the Bible to become more like Christ or to get closer to God is astonishing … The ideas of total depravity, the wrath of God against sin, the blood atonement, and the cross are either absent or distorted in Willard's theology. —  Apprising Ministries
 

Tags

depravity hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 249 times.

1 person has marked this word as a favorite.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Irreg. from de- + pravity, q. v.; as if from English deprave + -ity.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/dəˈprævəti/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

impecunious · intimated · surpris · conscientious · kibbutzim

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach