Vice
[vaɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a specific form of evildoing; 'vice offends the moral standards of the community'.
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Definition
(n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
(n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
(n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
(n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
(n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
(n.) A gripe or grasp.
(v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
(prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
(prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Defect, fault, blemish, imperfection.[2]. Wickedness, sin, iniquity, irregularity, depravity, immorality, laxity, indecorum, impropriety.
[L.] Instead of, in place of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Corruption, fault, defect, evil, crime, immorality, sin, badness
ANT:Purity, faultlessness, perfection, virtue, immaculateness, goodness, soundness
Typist: Nathaniel
Definition
n. a blemish or fault: immoral conduct: depravity of manners: a bad trick or habit in a horse: mischievousness: the stock buffoon in the old English Moralities or moral plays.—n. Vicios′ity.—adj. Vicious (vish′us).—adv. Vic′iously.—n. Vic′iousness.—Vicious circle syllogism circular or erroneous reasoning; Vicious intromission (see Intromit).
prep. in the place of: also a prefix denoting in the compound word one who acts in place of or is second in rank to another.—n. a vice-chairman &c.: one who acts in place of a superior.—ns. Vice′-ad′miral one acting in the place of or second in command to an admiral; Vice′-ad′miralty the office of a vice-admiral—(Vice′-ad′miralty courts tribunals in the British colonies having jurisdiction over maritime causes); Vice′-chair′man an alternate chairman; Vice′-chair′manship; Vice′-chan′cellor one acting for a chancellor: a lower judge of Chancery; (R.C. Church) the cardinal whose duty it is to draft and despatch papal bulls and briefs; Vice′-chan′cellorship; Vice′-con′sul one who acts in a consul's place: a consul in a less important district; Vice′-con′sulship; Vice-dean′ a canon chosen to represent an absent dean; Vicegē′rency the office of a vicegerent deputed power.—adj. Vicegē′rent acting in place of another having delegated authority.—n. one acting in place of a superior.—ns. Vice′-gov′ernor deputy governor; Vice′-king one who acts in place of a king; Vice′-pres′idency -pres′identship; Vice′-pres′ident an officer next in rank below the president; Vice′-prin′cipal assistant principal.—adj. Vicerē′gal.—ns. Vicerē′gency; Vice′roy Vicerē′gent one representing the royal authority in a dependency as in India; Viceroy′alty Vice′royship.
n. an iron or wooden screw-press fixed to the edge of a workboard for holding anything tightly while being filed &c.: (Shak.) a grip grasp.—v.t. to screw.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are favoring any vice, signifies you are about to endanger your reputation, by letting evil persuasions entice you. If you see others indulging in vice, some ill fortune will engulf the interest of some relative or associate.
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Examples
- And still the unjust must appear just; that is 'the homage which vice pays to virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Vice,' said the surgeon, replacing the curtain, 'takes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shell not enshrine her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- So I and the vice-president of the company, Mr. Mallory, crowded through the manhole to see why the ore would not come down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
- We arrived at Milan, and stationed ourselves in the Vice-Roy's palace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Maybe the American army will be there to protect them, the vice-consul said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Papa, you grasp like a vice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What suit of grace hath Virtue to put on If Vice shall wear as good, and do as well? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When the house has been swept and garnished, they dress up the exiled vices, and, crowning them with garlands, bring them back under new names. Plato. The Republic.
- Both my sister and myself have endeavoured to correct his vices, but ineffectually. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- His _Tableau des vices de la constitution d'Angleterre_ showed the realities of the English position. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Caliphronas, he said at length slowly, is a man who is a slave to his own vices, and gratifies himself at all costs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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