Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unjust; wicked; iniquitous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Iniquitous.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
iniquitous .
Etymologies
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Latin iniquus; prefix in- not + aequus. See equal.
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Examples
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Be not stoically mistaken in the equality of sins, nor commutatively iniquous in the valuation of transgressions; but weigh them in the scales of heaven, and by the weights of righteous reason.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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I quote a rabbi from Jerusalem in 1998, when there was an unjust "collection of taxes", he said: "If we continue being iniquous, this land will vomit us again".
unknown title 2009
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