depravement

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English

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Etymology

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From deprave +‎ -ment.

Noun

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depravement (countable and uncountable, plural depravements)

  1. (archaic) Depravity; corruption.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:
      And to this effect he maketh men believe that apparitions, and such as confirm his existence are either deceptions of sight, or melancholly depravements of phansie.