pravity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRAV'ITY, noun [Latin 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.
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