depravity

CEFRC1

/dəˈpɹævɪti/

noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

In context

Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor.
Walsingham was not blind to Edward’s failings, and attributed the political problems of the 1370s directly to the old king’s moral depravity.
There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.

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Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor.
1850, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in White Jacket, or, The World on a Man-of-War
Walsingham was not blind to Edward’s failings, and attributed the political problems of the 1370s directly to the old king’s moral depravity.
2000, “Introduction”, in The Reign of Edward III, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10
There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.
1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 16, in The Subterranean Brotherhood
Here is a child of three years old, and she cannot tell who made her! Without question, she is equally in the dark as to her soul, its present depravity, and future destiny!
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 8, in The Scarlet Letter

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