All 3 Uses of
perversion
in
Middlemarch
- One change terrified her as if it had been a sin; it was a violent shock of repulsion from her departed husband, who had had hidden thoughts, perhaps perverting everything she said and did.†
Chpt 5
- Bulstrode's course up to that time had, he thought, been sanctioned by remarkable providences, appearing to point the way for him to be the agent in making the best use of a large property and withdrawing it from perversion.†
Chpt 6 *
- Whereas, again and again, in his time of freedom, he had denounced the perversion of pathological doubt into moral doubt and had said—"the purest experiment in treatment may still be conscientious: my business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(perversion) the conversion of something so it is not what it should be -- especially a sexual practice considered unacceptable by society