Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being vicious or vitiated; a corrupted state; depravation; a vicious property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Viciousness; depravity.
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- noun rare
viciousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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From which we also get 'vitiator' and 'vitiosity' - the state or quality of being vicious.
Light and Shade 2008
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I find my growing judgment daily instruct me how to be better, but my untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity make me daily do worse.
Religio Medici 2007
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I find my growing judgment daily instruct me how to be better, but my untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity make me daily do worse.
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I find my growing Judgment daily instruct me how to be better, but my untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity makes me daily do worse.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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I find my growing Judgment daily instruct me how to be better, but my untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity makes me daily do worse.
Paras 36-70 1909
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Why this vitiosity and corrupt habit of nature comes to have this denomination of flesh: and that for three reasons:
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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The vitiosity of our nature is called flesh, because of its close, inseparable nearness to the soul.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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A third reason why the vitiosity of our nature is called flesh is, because of its dearness to us.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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To shew why this vitiosity and corrupt habit of nature comes to have this denomination of flesh.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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Thus therefore must the corruption and vitiosity of our nature be dealt with.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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