Turpitude
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitūdō (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
turpitude (countable and uncountable, plural turpitudes)
- Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
- An act evident of such depravity.
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Translations[edit]
inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin turpitūdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
turpitude f (plural turpitudes)
Further reading[edit]
- “turpitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.