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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRAVITY

n.[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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRAVITY

Prav "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. pravitas, from pravus crooked, perverse. ]

 

Defn: Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. "The pravity of the will. " South.