Iniquity
[ɪ'nɪkwɪtɪ] or [ɪ'nɪkwəti]
Definition
(noun.) absence of moral or spiritual values; 'the powers of darkness'.
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
(n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
(n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Injustice, unrighteousness, wickedness.[2]. Sin, crime, deviation, wicked act, offence.
Typist: Weldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Injustice, wrong, sir, evil-doing, wickedness, crime, grievance
ANT:Justice, integrity, virtue, holiness
Editor: Tess
Definition
n. want of equity or fairness: injustice: wickedness: a crime: one of the names of the Vice the established buffoon of the old Moralities.—adj. Iniq′uitous unjust: unreasonable: wicked.—adv. Iniq′uitously.
Typist: Willard
Examples
- Pray, what iniquity has turned up now? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She would pine away in green and yellow melancholy if she had not my six feet of iniquity to scold. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But behold how iniquity can circumvent the law! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The soul may be full of all iniquities, but is not, by reason of them, brought any nearer to death. Plato. The Republic.
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