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  • noun Plural form of immorality.

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Examples

  • Jews, above other nations, with the dignities of visible church-membership, yet he will not therefore accept of any particular persons of that dignity, if they allow themselves in immoralities contradictory to their profession; and particularly in persecution, which was now, more than any other, the national sin of the Jews.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • That, in one way or another, is the crying difficulty of Young England, and none sees more clearly than Mr. Wells the relation of all our so-called immoralities to the economic condition and the impossibilities of remedying one without correcting the other.

    An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist 1911

  • To his Italian origin Zola owed not only the moralistic scope of his literary ambition, but the depth and strength of his personal conscience, capable of the austere puritanism which underlies the so-called immoralities of his books, and incapable of the peculiar lubricity which we call French, possibly to distinguish it from the lubricity of other people rather than to declare it a thing solely French.

    Emile Zola William Dean Howells 1878

  • Perhaps, then, it would be best for all of us, including yourself, to stay quiet, because past "immoralities" may taint our present wisdom.

    Confession of a Broken Planner, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • He said Iran would confront these "immoralities" but did not say what measures Tehran intends to take.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • The governor added, “The Assembly were greatly inflamed being told that the greatest immoralities & drunkenness have been much countenanced and proper discipline neglected.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Dinwiddie also complained about “the greatest immoralities and drunkenness,” which had been “much countenanced and proper discipline neglected.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The governor added, “The Assembly were greatly inflamed being told that the greatest immoralities & drunkenness have been much countenanced and proper discipline neglected.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The governor added, “The Assembly were greatly inflamed being told that the greatest immoralities & drunkenness have been much countenanced and proper discipline neglected.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Dinwiddie also complained about “the greatest immoralities and drunkenness,” which had been “much countenanced and proper discipline neglected.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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