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Deprave   Listen
verb
Deprave  v. t.  (past & past part. depraved; pres. part. depraving)  
1.
To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. (Obs.) "And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart."
2.
To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. "Whose pride depraves each other better part."
Synonyms: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.





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"Deprave" Quotes from Famous Books



... tell you, once for all, that I will not allow you to contaminate your innocent schoolmates with your gifts of surreptitious sweetmeats; they shall not be perverted with your pernicious peppermints, sir; you shall not deprave them by jujubes, or enervate them with Turkish Delight! I will not expose myself or them to the inroads of disease invited here by a hypocritical inmate of my walls. The ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... sure!— Fate such a bold, untrammelled spirit gave him, As forwards, onwards, ever must endure; Whose over-hasty impulse drave him Past earthly joys he might secure. Dragged through the wildest life, will I enslave him, Through flat and stale indifference; With struggling, chilling, checking, so deprave him That, to his hot, insatiate sense, The dream of drink shall mock, but never lave him: Refreshment shall his lips in vain implore— Had he not made himself the Devil's, naught could save him, Still ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... ruin, at the base of a rock crumbling to dust, at the foot of a tree that is splitting asunder?... You may command what is opposed to nature, but you will not be obeyed. You will multiply evil-doers and the unhappy by fear, by punishment, and by remorse; you will deprave men's consciences; you will corrupt their minds; they will have lost the polar star of ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley


Words linked to "Deprave" :   carnalize, depravation, modify, bastardise, vitiate, subvert, corrupt, debase, infect, demoralize, suborn, change, poison, debauch, misdirect, sensualise, bastardize, lead off


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