perversion

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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⟳.”

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