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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPRAVATION, n.
1. The act of making bad or worse; the act of corrupting.
2. The state of being made bad or worse; degeneracy; a state in which good qualities are lost, or impaired. We speak of the depravation of morals, manners or goverment; of the heart or mind; of nature, taste, etc.
3. Censure; defamation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]

Merriam Webster's

noun see deprave

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depravation Dep`ra*va"tion (d[e^]p`r[.a]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. depravitio, from depravare: cf. F. d['e]pravation. See Deprave.] 1. Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. --Shak. 2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. 3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment. --Sir G. C. Lewis. 4. (Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion. Syn: Depravity; corruption. See Depravity.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Vitiation, corruption, deterioration, abasement, debasement, impairing, injury. 2. Depravity, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration, debasement, impairment, impaired condition.

Moby Thesaurus

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