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Meaning of perversion | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
  2. The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
  3. Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
  4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
  5. Tendril perversion.

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Examples

“After all, the great error in human judgment is not so much wilful perversion, as that we judge according to situation, and always make that situation our own; while the chances are, that we really have not one thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide.”

CEFR level

C2
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