Depravation

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1. Noun

Detraction; depreciation.

2. Noun

The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.

3. Noun

The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.

4. Noun

Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

5. Noun

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
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