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Word of the Day – Pravity

By October 30, 2019Word of the Day

Pravity (noun) (archaic)

p-rav-it-ee

Moral perversion or corruption; wickedness, depravity; an instance of this.

Early 16th century; earliest use found in John Irland (c1440–1495), theologian. From Middle French pravité and its etymon classical Latin prāvitās crookedness, distortion, perverseness, depravity from prāvus + -tās.

Example sentences

“He showed immense pravity and I won’t have him in the house!”

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