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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.

Definition 2024

immorality

immorality

English

Noun

immorality ‎(usually uncountable, plural immoralities)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
  2. (countable) An immoral act or practice.
    • The Qur'an (Saheeh International Translation), surah 7, verse 28
      And when they commit an immorality, they say "we found our fathers doing it, and God has ordered us to do it"

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  • Rhymes: -ælɪti

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