pravità
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin prāvitātem (“viciousness ← deformity”). By surface analysis, pravo (“evil, wicked”) + -ità (“-ity, -ness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pravità f (invariable) (literary)
- evilness, wickedness
- Synonyms: malvagità, perversità
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle][1], published 1991, ⅬⅩⅨ Di certe leggi che fece in Roma Lodovico di Baviera sì come imperadore:
- Lodovico di Baviera, […] in presenza del popolo di Roma fece pubblicare e confermò le ’nfrascritte nuove leggi per lui nuovamente fatte, la sustanzia in brieve de le quali è questa: che qualunque Cristiano […] incontanente trovato in quello peccato dell’eretica pravità o de la lesa maestà, fosse e dovesse essere morto
- Louis of Bavaria, at the presence of the people of Rome, had the undermentioned new laws, made from scratch by himself, published and confirmed, whose essence, briefly, is this: any Christian found in the sin of heretical wickedness, or of lese majesty, was to be immediately put to death
- 1940, Riccardo Bacchelli, Mondo vecchio sempre nuovo [Ever New Old World], Mursia, published 1969, page 25:
- era sporco d'una sporcizia che serviva d'insegna alla sua pravità
- he was filthy, of a filth that served as a sign of his wickedness
- an evil or depraved deed
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pravità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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