deprave
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deprave
- /dɪˈpɹeɪv/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪv
Where it comes from
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
verb depraves · depraving · depraved
- To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
- To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt Interpreting humanity in purely zoological categories, he saw the social community as a form of natural co-operation within the species, distorted or depraved by religious prejudice, while in moral speculation he did not advance beyond the eudaemonistic schema of the Enlightenment.
