Both Uses of
iniquity
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "We ought to feel full o' thanksgiving that he's not a player of ba'dy songs instead of these merry tunes; for 'twould have been just as easy for God to have made the shepherd a loose low man—a man of iniquity, so to speak it—as what he is.†
Chpt 7-9
- " 'A's a stammering man, mem," said Henery Fray in an undertone, "and they turned him away because the only time he ever did speak plain he said his soul was his own, and other iniquities, to the squire.†
Chpt 10-12 *
Definition:
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(iniquity) immorality; or an immoral act