All 6 Uses
iniquity
in
The Divine Comedy — translated by Longfellow
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- "O Friars," began I, "your iniquitous..."
But said no more; for to mine eyes there rushed
One crucified with three stakes on the ground.†Canto 1.23-34 * - Horrible my iniquities had been;
But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms,
That it receives whatever turns to it.†Canto 2.1-11iniquities = immoral or unjust acts - The world forsooth is utterly deserted
By every virtue, as thou tellest me,
And with iniquity is big and covered;
But I beseech thee point me out the cause,
That I may see it, and to others show it;
For one in the heavens, and here below one puts it.†Canto 2.12-22 - Herein doth living Justice sweeten so
Affection in us, that for evermore
It cannot warp to any iniquity.†Canto 3.1-11 - Paradiso: Canto XV
A will benign, in which reveals itself
Ever the love that righteously inspires,
As in the iniquitous, cupidity,
Silence imposed upon that dulcet lyre,
And quieted the consecrated chords,
That Heaven's right hand doth tighten and relax.†Canto 3.12-22 - I followed in his train against that law's
Iniquity, whose people doth usurp
Your just possession, through your Pastor's fault.†Canto 3.12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(iniquity) immorality; or an immoral act
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)