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Webster 1913 Edition

Iniquity

In-iq′ui-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Iniquities
(#)
.
[OE.
iniquitee
, F.
iniquité
, L.
iniquitas
, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See
Iniquous
.]
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.
Till the world from his perfection fell
Into all filth and foul
iniquity
.
Spenser.
2.
An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
Milton.
Your
iniquities
have separated between you and your God.
Is. lix. 2.
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
.
Acts old
Iniquity
, and in the fit
Of miming gets the opinion of a wit.
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Iniquity

INIQ'UITY

,
Noun.
[L. iniquitas; in and oequitas, equity.]
1.
Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.
2.
Want of rectitude in principle; as a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
3.
A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Is.59.
4.
Original want of holiness or depravity.
I was shapen in iniquity. Ps.51.

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