pervert

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who has been perverted

   One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.

   • […] a religious pervert is ever a doubtful product. One separated from the fellows of his youth and the faith of his fathers, by acceptance of a different religion, is of necessity more or less adrift on the sea of life […]
   • According to the Holy Qur'an, those who cast off God's signs and follow Satan and their caprice are perverts; they are likened to dogs […]
2. 2

   A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

   • Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
   • I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.
3. 3

   To turn another way

   To turn another way; to divert.

   • Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
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   1. 4

      To corrupt

      To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure

      • How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?
      • He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
      • He was a good Proteſtant, but when he fell into the Jeſuits hands, they ſoon perverted him, and made him embrace the Roman Catholick Religion […]
   2. 5

      To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose

      • He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.
   3. 6

      to misinterpret designedly.

      • pervert one's words
   4. 7

      To become perverted

      To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

      • After that worde, "better is it to dey than lyve false," and al wolde perverted people false reporte make

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