Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-PRAV'I-TY
DE-PRAV'I-TY, n.
- Corruption; a vitiated state; as, the depravity of manners and morals. – Burke.
- A vitiated state of the heart; wickedness; corruption of moral principles; destitution of holiness or good principles.
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