Hypertext Webster Gateway: "iniquities"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Iniquity \In*iq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Iniquities}. [OE. iniquitee, F.
iniquit['e], L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice.
See {Iniquous}.]
1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of
rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice;
unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery;
the iniquity of an unjust judge.

Till the world from his perfection fell Into all
filth and foul iniquity. --Spenser.

2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o?
unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. --Milton.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your
God. --Is. lix. 2.

3. A character or personification in the old English
moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of
one vice and sometimes of another. See {Vice}.

Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the
opinion of a wit. --B. Jonson.


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