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Found 2 items, similar to iniquity.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: iniquity iniquity n 1: absence of moral or spiritual values; “the powers of darkness” [syn: wickedness, darkness, dark] 2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness] 3: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Iniquity Iniquity \In*iq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. Iniquities. [OE. iniquitee, F. iniquit['e], L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous.] [1913 Webster] 1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. [1913 Webster] Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. --Is. lix. 2. [1913 Webster] 3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice. [1913 Webster] Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Vice \Vice\, n. [F., from L. vitium.] 1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. [1913 Webster] Withouten vice of syllable or letter. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Mark the vice of the procedure. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] 2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. [1913 Webster] I do confess the vices of my blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice. --Milton. [1913 Webster] When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity. [1913 Webster] Note: This character was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, and was armed with a dagger of lath: one of his chief employments was to make sport with the Devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with the dagger of lath till he made him roar. The Devil, however, always carried him off in the end. --Nares. [1913 Webster] How like you the Vice in the play? . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Syn: Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. See Crime. [1913 Webster]
TERAKHIR DICARI
22:41 Uncorruption menggulut ARTI YURIDIS menggulut C10H13NH2 Disdaining lesser forked beard Resinic Mandrel lathe iniquity
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