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[syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Depravation \Dep`ra*va"tion\ (d[e^]p`r[.a]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. depravitio, from depravare: cf. F. d['e]pravation. See
Deprave.]
1. Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.]
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To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,
For depravation. --Shak.
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2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of
corrupting.
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3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy;
depravity.
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The depravation of his moral character destroyed his
judgment. --Sir G. C.
Lewis.
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4. (Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid
perversion.
Syn: Depravity; corruption. See Depravity.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
depravation
n 1: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral
principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper
classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual
degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its
depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [syn:
corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity,
putrefaction]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "depravation":
abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness,
corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency,
declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy,
degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization,
demotion, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation,
descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downtrend,
downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb,
effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall,
falling-off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution,
moral turpitude, profligacy, regression, reprobacy, retrocession,
retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump,
turpitude, wane