Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-MO-RAL'I-TY
IM-MO-RAL'I-TY, n.
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.
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