English-Thai Dictionary

iniquity

N ความอยุติธรรม  ความชั่วช้า  wickedness injustice wrong immorality kindness kwam-ar-yu-ti-tam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INIQUITY

n.[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. Isaiah 59:2.
4. Original want of holiness or depravity.
I was shapen in iniquity. Psalm 51:5.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INIQUITY

In *iq "ui *ty, n.; pl. Iniquities. Etym: [OE. iniquitee, F. iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous. ]

 

1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want 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 o 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

iniquity

in iq ui ty |iˈnikwitē ɪˈnɪkwədi | ▶noun ( pl. iniquities ) immoral or grossly unfair behavior: a den of iniquity | a liberal lawyer could uncover the iniquities committed on his own doorstep. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French iniquite, from Latin iniquitas, from iniquus, from in- ‘not ’ + aequus ‘equal, just. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

iniquity

iniquity |ɪˈnɪkwɪti | ▶noun ( pl. iniquities ) [ mass noun ] immoral or grossly unfair behaviour: a den of iniquity | [ count noun ] : the iniquities of British taxation. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French iniquite, from Latin iniquitas, from iniquus, from in- ‘not ’ + aequus ‘equal, just ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

iniquity

iniquity noun 1 many runaways become the pawns of these merchants of iniquity: wickedness, sinfulness, immorality, impropriety; vice, evil, sin; villainy, criminality; odiousness, atrocity, egregiousness; outrage, monstrosity, obscenity, reprehensibility; formal turpitude. ANTONYMS morality, virtue. 2 I will forgive their iniquity: sin, crime, transgression, wrongdoing, wrong, violation, offense, vice. ANTONYMS goodness, virtue.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

iniquity

iniquity noun 1 the iniquity of his conduct: wickedness, sinfulness, immorality, impropriety, vice, evil, sin; villainy, criminality, crime, heinousness, nefariousness, knavery; vileness, foulness, baseness, odiousness, atrociousness, dreadfulness, egregiousness; outrageousness, outrage, monstrousness, obscenity, reprehensibility; ungodliness, godlessness, impiety, devilry. ANTONYMS goodness, virtue. 2 I will forgive their iniquity: sin, crime, transgression, wrongdoing, wrong, offence, injury, vice, violation, atrocity, outrage. ANTONYMS virtue.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

iniquity

in iq ui ty /ɪnɪ́kwəti /名詞 複 -ties C U ｟かたく ｠不正, 邪悪 (なもの )▸ a den of iniquity ｟おどけて ｠悪の巣窟 （そうくつ ）.