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/ˌdɛpɹəˈveɪʃən/
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NOUN
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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
How To Use depravation In A Sentence
- According to M. Guizot, "Tacite a peint les Germains comme M.ntaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d'humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l'eloquente boutade d'un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d'une vielle societe. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
- Preparation prior to scene … (submissive training depravation, s/m, etc) Heroes or Villains?
- There are two things which hinder or disenable men from believing with faith divine and supernatural, when any divine revelation is objectively proposed unto them: -- First, The natural blindness and darkness of their minds, which are come upon all by the fall, and the depravation of their nature that ensued thereon. Pneumatologia
- He left fairly comfortable circumstances to sail 12,000 miles and suffered hardship and depravation.
- They suspected before they began that sleep depravation, smoking, extra jobs and a social life all contributed to a lack of concentration.
- National sovereignty although to world environment of depravation negative have a responsibility, the sovereign state also is a global environment emollient conservator in the meantime.
- This kind of value, which pursues merchandise unilaterally, caused problems such as the pollution of the environment, the ecosystem depravation and the shortage of resources inevitably.
- All I need is a 35-40 hour day and an immunity to sleep depravation and I'll perhaps be able to do it one day.
- Accompany with the wave tide of economic globalization, environment depravation the problem "float a surface" also combines with state sovereignty and constituted new the characteristic in century.
- In order to prevent the environment depravation, the international society, cooperating together to solve the environment problem, has established the sustainable development pattern.