INIQ'UITY, noun [Latin 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 Psalms 51:5.
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