different between depravity vs deprave

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?æv?ti/

Noun

depravity (countable and uncountable, plural depravities)

1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
2. (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
3. (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Synonyms

• wickedness

Related terms

• depravation
• depravedness

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “depravity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• depravity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “depravity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "depravity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "depravity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Anagrams

• varityped

English

Etymology

From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin d?pr?v?re (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Verb

deprave (third-person singular simple present depraves, present participle depraving, simple past and past participle depraved)

1. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
2. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

Related terms

• depravation
• depraved
• depravedness
• depravity

Translations

Further reading

• deprave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprave at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pervade, repaved

Spanish

Verb

deprave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of depravar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of depravar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of depravar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of depravar.