All 7 Uses of
depravity
in
Billy Budd
- In a list of definitions included in the authentic translation of Plato, a list attributed to him, occurs this: "Natural Depravity: a depravity according to nature."†
Chpt 11
- In a list of definitions included in the authentic translation of Plato, a list attributed to him, occurs this: "Natural Depravity: a depravity according to nature."†
Chpt 11
- Not many are the examples of this depravity which the gallows and jail supply.†
Chpt 11
- In short the depravity here meant partakes nothing of the sordid or sensual.†
Chpt 11
- Now something such an one was Claggart, in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living, but born with him and innate, in short "a depravity according to nature."†
Chpt 11
- An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.†
Chpt 13
- The enormity of the crime and the extreme depravity of the criminal, appear the greater in view of the character of the victim,
Chpt 29 *depravity = immorality or evilness
Definition:
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(depravity) complete immorality or evilness