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   depravity

   /dɪˈpravɪti/

   noun

   • 1. moral corruption; wickedness: "a tale of depravity hard to credit"
   • ▪ the innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.

   Scrabble Points: 18

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