pravities

But his capacious and acute understanding was gradually unfolding new resources, supplying the defects, and overcoming the disadvantages of his imperfect education and desultory and irregular studies, while his matured and enlightened judgment had abandoned and discarded the fanatical pravities and erroneous tenets, which his ardent enthusiasm had too hastily imbibed.

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

It is such heresies as this, and the still grosser pravities into which the ethics of expediency run, that this book will do much to combat.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various