Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of perverting.
- noun The state of being perverted.
- noun A sexual practice or act considered abnormal or deviant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of perverting; a turning from truth or propriety; a diverting from the true intent or object; change to something worse.
- noun In mathematics, the operation of passing from any figure to another like the image of the former in a plane mirror; also, same as
perverse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
perverting someone or something;humiliation ;debasement . - noun The state of being
perverted ;depravity ;viciousness . - noun A sexual practice or act considered
abnormal ; sexualdeviance ;immorality . - noun An instance of such abnormal activity or behaviour;
rape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
- noun an aberrant sexual practice
- noun a curve that reverses the direction of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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And such a perversion is their saying that the Word hath inherent and positive power and I take refuge with
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The only perversion is from the religious right who insist on cherry picking the Old Testament for passages to support their warped view of life. gypsydaveywithablowtorch
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That perversion is what leads to the housing segregation and immigration biases, among other things.
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A pervert's attempt to demonstrate that perversion is "statistically" normal.
May 30th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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As this feminine perversion is only glanced at in The Nights I need hardly enlarge upon the subject.
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You left out an interesting angle: The man who thought homosexuality was a perversion is named is Jihad Daniel.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Awsome Defense of Free Speech 2005
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In the United States, the Boy Scouts of America maintains a list it calls the "perversion files."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KIM MACKRAEL 2011
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This I call perversion -- where strictest justice is the most strenuous wrong.
Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Martin Luther 1514
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His conversion - some Protestants called it a "perversion" - rocked the country.
New Statesman John Cornwell 2010
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"... sexologists tend to avoid the terms perversion and perverted, as well as deviant, deviation and ` unnatural, 'preferring the less judgmental and more neutral descriptive terms variation and variant."
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