iniquity
nounEtymology
From Middle English iniquite, jniquite (“evil, wickedness, iniquity; evil act; hostility, malevolence; hostile act; a calamity, misfortune”), from Old French iniquité (modern French iniquité (“iniquity”)), from Latin inīquitās (“iniquity; inequality, unfairness; inequity, injustice”), from inīquus (“unequal, uneven, unfair; disadvantageous, unfavourable; hostile, unkind; unsuitable; wicked, wrong”) + -itās (variant of -tās (suffix forming a noun indicating a state of being)). Inīquus is derived from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + aequus (“equal; fair, impartial, just”). Piecewise doublet of inequity.
Definitions
Deviation from what is right
Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.
- If you be ſo fond ouer her iniquity, giue her patent to offend, for if it touches not you, it comes neere no body.
- Beholde, he putteth no truſt in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his ſight. How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
An act of great injustice or unfairness
An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.
- For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee puniſhed by the Judges.
- O regard not this, 'tis an iniquity to be taken heed of, in a dark day, in a day of trouble, ſuch as was upon Job; as black a day was upon him, as ever upon any in the world, as to his perſonal condition.
The neighborhood
- synonymbaseness
- synonymcorruption
- synonymdefilement
- synonymdegeneracy
- synonymdegradation
- synonymdepravation
- synonymdepravedness
- synonymdepravity
- synonymimpurity
- synonyminiquity
- synonymlewdity
- synonymmalignity
- antonymintegrity
- antonymmorality
- antonymwell-doing
- neighborabyss
- neighborbadness
- neighborimprobity
- neighborinjustice
- neighboratrocity
- neighborinchastity
- neighborpromiscuity
- neighborviciousness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at iniquity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at iniquity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at iniquity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA