prāvĭtas (noun F) : pravus
* Crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity (class.).
* Lit.: pravitas membrorum,Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 29: corporis pravitates,id. Leg. 1, 19, 51: oris,a distorting of the mouth in speaking,id. de Or. 2, 22, 91; id. Fin. 5, 17, 47: statuminum,Col. 4, 20: curvaturae,Pall. 4, 11.
* Trop., irregularity, impropriety, bad condition, perverseness: quae ista est pravitas Quaeve amentia?Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 20: ne malā consuetudine ad aliquam deformitatem pravitatemque veniamus, impropriety in speaking, in gestures, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 136: ominis,a bad omen,Gell. 1, 22, 21: tortuosae orationis,id. 5, 20, 1.
* In partic., of character, viciousness, untowardness, perverseness, depravity: animi,perverseness,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 10, 40: mentis,Cic. Vatin. 6, 14: in istā pravitate perstabitis?id. Ac. 2, 8, 26: consilii,Tac. H. 3, 41: interitus pravitatis,Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 27; Tac. A. 14, 38: morum,id. H. 4, 44: cordis,Vulg. Deut. 29, 19 et saep.

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