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deprave
Part of Speech: transitive noun
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Examples of usage:
- Such things seem mostly to happen either in the privity of people who are born liars, or else they deprave the spectator so, through his spiritual vanity or his love of the marvelous, that you can't believe a word he says. - "Questionable Shapes", William Dean Howells.
- We leave, then, for a while this bold, frank nature- fresh from the health of the rural life- gradually to improve, or deprave itself, in the companionship it finds. - "The Last Of The Barons, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
- Toleration of all modes of adoring the Deity is a debt due from sovereigns to their subjects; the gospel which directs the preaching of truths and the enlightening those who are in error, forbids by this very act itself the persecuting of them; for persecution must rather confirm in heresy or extort hypocritical abjurations, which deprave morality and outrage religion. - "The Power Of The Popes", Pierre Claude François Daunou.