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Depravation   Listen
noun
Depravation  n.  
1.
Detraction; depreciation. (Obs.) "To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation."
2.
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
3.
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. "The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment."
4.
(Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Synonyms: Depravity; corruption. See Depravity.





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"Depravation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of no great extent, rough and barren, inhabited by the Macquarrys; a clan not powerful nor numerous, but of antiquity, which most other families are content to reverence. The name is supposed to be a depravation of some other; for the Earse language does not afford it any etymology. Macquarry is proprietor both of Ulva and some adjacent Islands, among which is Staffa, so lately raised to renown by ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson
... the moon. Before the tribunal of an intelligent public opinion,—not of our day, but of some distant epoch, the justification of secret vivisection will assuredly be demanded. Will it be given? Against the vast cost in money, cost in depravation of the instinct of compassion, cost in the lessened sensitiveness of young men and young women to the infliction of torment, cost in the seeming necessity of defending and justifying cruelty, cost in the temptation to exaggerate facts, cost in the countless hecatombs of victims, non-existent ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell
... and the coffee-house among the men, seem to be places of new invention for a depravation of our manners and morals, places devoted to scandal, and where the characters of all kinds of persons and professions are handled in the most merciless manner, where reproach triumphs, and we seem to give ourselves a loose to ...
— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe


Words linked to "Depravation" :   degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction, corruption


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