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  • 71perversion — n 1. deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variability, misguidance, misdirection, misadvisement; misinformation, misex planation, misexplication; misinstruction, miseduca tion, miscorrection; delusion, beguilement, deceit,… …

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  • 72profanation — n 1. irreverence, indevoutness, irre ligion, impiety, ungodliness, unholiness, profanity, profaning, profaneness; blasphemy, sacrilege, desecration; unrighteousness, unvirtuousness, consciencelessness, immorality; godlessness, sinfulness,… …

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  • 73sacrilege — n 1. profanation, profaneness, profanity, cursing, blasphemy, desecration; mockery, irreverence, indevoutness, irreligion, impiety, impiousness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, unrespectfulness; ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness,… …

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  • 74turpitude — n 1. depravity, corruption, corruptness, corruptedness, perversion, depravation; demoralization, deterioration, corrosion, degradation, debasement, abasement, vitiation, degeneration, degeneracy, degenerateness; adulteration, pollution,… …

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  • 75vitiation — n 1. impairment, reduction, devaluation, deterioration, depreciation, lowering, descent, fall, detriment; adulteration, pollution, contamination, infection, dilution, poisoning. 2. debasement, abasement, degradation, degeneration, decadence;… …

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  • 76abuse — [n1] wrong use corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing; concept 156… …

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  • 77violation — [n1] breach; breaking of the law abuse, break, breaking, contravention, encroachment, illegality, infraction, infringement, misbehavior, misdemeanor, negligence, nonobservance, offense, rupture, transgressing, transgression, trespass, trespassing …

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  • 78contaminate — [kən tam′ə nāt΄] vt. contaminated, contaminating [ME contaminaten < L contaminatus, pp. of contaminare, to defile < contamen, contact, contagion < com , together + base of tangere, to touch: see TACT] to make impure, infected, corrupt,… …

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  • 79LEVITICUS, BOOK OF — (Heb. וַיִּקְרָא; LXX Λευιτικόν leuitikon), more aptly described by its tannaitic name, Torat Kohanim, the Priests Manual, the third book of the Pentateuch. Leviticus is thematically an independent entity. exodus contains the story of the… …

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