Definition of Iniquity

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Iniquity

Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.

An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.

A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.

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Iniquity Quotations

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
Pope Gregory VII

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Charles Mackay

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Kitty Carlisle

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
Josiah Stamp

Iniquity Translations

iniquity in German is Frevel
iniquity in Spanish is iniquidad

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