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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pravitas

, from

pravus

crooked, perverse.]

Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity;

as, the

pravity

of human nature

“The pravity of the will.”

South.

Noun.

[L. pravitas, from pravus, crooked, evil.]

Deviation from right; moral perversion; want of rectitude; corrupt state; as the pravity of human nature; the pravity of the will.