Iniquity Definition

ĭ-nĭkwĭ-tē
iniquities
noun
iniquities
Lack of righteousness or justice; wickedness.
Webster's New World
A wicked, unjust, or unrighteous act.
Webster's New World

Absence of moral or spiritual values, lawlessness.

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Noun

Singular:
iniquity
Plural:
iniquities

Origin of Iniquity

  • Middle English iniquite from Old French from Latin inīquitās from inīquus unjust, harmful in- not in–1 aequus equal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English iniquite, from Old French iniquité, from Latin iniquitas, from iniquus (“unjust, harmful”).

    From Wiktionary

Iniquity Sentence Examples

  • He was not indeed the monster of iniquity he is popularly supposed to have been.

  • But within a somewhat narrower field he worked with patience, industry, and self-denying zeal; his ambition, which seemed to many personal, was rather the outcome of his devotion to the cause of the Church; and in the later years of his life especially he showed that he loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and that he realized as clearly as any one that the service of God was incomplete without the service of man.

  • Of him David enquired, What is mine iniquity?

  • And I say to you, wherever you find men ruled merely by mystery, it is the mystery of iniquity.

  • The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With I and Ending With Y

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