immorality

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immorality - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Immorality \Im`mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. Immoralities. [Cf. F.
     immoralit['e].]
     1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
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              The root of all immorality.           --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     2. An immoral act or practice.
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              Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies
              and immoralities broke loose among them. --Milton.
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immorality - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  immorality
      n 1: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right
           or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of
           the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" [ant:
           morality]
      2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality,
         wickedness, iniquity]

immorality - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  IMMORALITY. that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it is not 
  punishable in some cases, at the common law, on, account of the 
  ecclesiastical jurisdictions: e. g. adultery. But except in cases belonging 
  to the ecclesiastical courts, the court of king's bench is the custom morum, 
  and may punish delicto contra bonos mores. 3 Burr. Rep. 1438; 1 Bl. Rep. 94; 
  2 Strange, 788. In Pennsylvania, and most, if not all the United States, all 
  such cases come under one and the same jurisdiction. 
       2. Immoral contracts are generally void; an agreement in consideration 
  of future illicit cohabitation between the parties; 3 Burr. 1568; S. C. 1 
  Bl. Rep. 517; 1 Esp. R. 13; 1 B. & P. 340, 341; an agreement for the value 
  of libelous and immoral pictures, 4 Esp. R. 97; or for printing a libel, 2 
  Stark. R. 107; or for an immoral wager, Chit. Contr. 156, cannot, therefore, 
  be enforced. For whatever arises from an immoral or illegal consideration, 
  is void: quid turpi ex causa promissum est non valet. Inst. 3, 20, 24. 
       3. It is a general rule, that whenever an agreement appears to be 
  illegal, immoral, or against public policy, a court of justice leaves the 
  parties where it finds them; when the agreement has been executed, the court 
  will not rescind it; when executory, the count will not help the execution. 
  4 Ohio R. 419; 4 John. R. 419; 11 John. R. 388; 12 John. R. 306; 19 John. R. 
  341; 3 Cowen's R. 213; 2 Wils. R. 341. 
  
  

immorality - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "immorality":
     amorality, backsliding, carnality, corruption, criminality,
     delinquency, depravity, evil, evil nature, impurity,
     moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, recidivism,
     unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness,
     unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice,
     viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wickedness, wrongdoing