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(Latin: crooked, crookedness; perverted, vicious, wicked)
depravation
1. In medicine, deterioration; a change for the worse.
2. To make bad, to corrupt; especially, to corrupt morally.
3. To corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
deprave
1. To have a morally bad or corrupting influence on someone.
2. To change for the worse; especially, morally; to corrupt; to pervert.
depraved
1. Marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good.
2. Having showed great moral corruption or wickedness.
depravedly
In a depraved, or wicked, immoral manner.
depravedness
1. The state, or condition, of being depraved.
2. Marked by corruption or evil.
depravement
1. A condition in which someone speaks ill of, maligns, or reviles.
2. A reference to making something bad or worse.
depraver
Anyone who speaks ill of or who maligns another person or people.
depraving
Making morally bad or evil.
depravity
1. A state, or condition, of moral corruption.
2. A morally corrupt or wicked act.
3. A depraved act or condition.
pravity
Deterioration, degeneracy, corruption; especially, moral crookedness, moral perversion, perverseness.
self-depraved
Corrupted or depraved by one's self.
sleep depravation; misspelling of "sleep deprivation"
1. Going for extended periods of time without sleep.
2. A general lack of a necessary amount of sleep.
This may occur as a result of sleep disorders, active choice, or deliberate inducement; such as, in interrogation or for torture.
total depravity
1. The Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin.
2. The doctrine, primarily held by conservative Christians, that every part of a person has been hopelessly damaged by sin.
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