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Webster 1913 Edition


Immorality

Imˊmo-ral′i-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Immoralities
(#)
.
[Cf. F.
immoralité
.]
1.
The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
The root of all
immorality
.
Sir W. Temple.
2.
An immoral act or practice.
Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and
immoralities
broke loose among them.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Immorality

IMMORAL'ITY

,
Noun.
Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice,dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality.