English Dictionary

depravity

IPA（発音記号）

/dəˈpɹævɪti/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 キリスト教

(uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement. / (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.

日本語の意味

道徳の堕落、倫理の倒錯（数量不可名詞の場合、堕落の状態・条件） / 特定の堕落した行為または性質（数量可名詞の場合）

Historians debated whether the emperor's depravity was the cause of the empire's collapse.

歴史家たちは、皇帝の堕落が帝国の崩壊の原因だったかどうかを議論した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor.

意味（2）

(countable) A particular depraved act or trait.

There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.

意味（3）

(uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Here is a child of three years old, and she cannot tell who made her! Without question, she is equally in the dark as to her soul, its present depravity, and future destiny!

depravities （ plural ）