Middle English Dictionary Entry
perversitẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | perversitẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | OF perversité |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Wickedness; also, a vice.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)400/3 : The þridde chapitil is of þe peruersyte, myseries, & laboris of hem which ben not obedient.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)61/5 : Ther is no thyng that is..so corupte as the concience of som of theim in all peruersitees.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)61/10 : Their wordis..will not shewe outewarde the open peruersitee to theim that falle in their daungers.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)137/19 : Alle vnkyndnes with peruersite þat is done to the peple is plesyng to the riȝtwysnes of the hye juge.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.414 : The frowarde heretykes..strayen oute as they were litargykes, Whiche haue forget their lorde as cronnatykes, Hauyng no shame of theyr peruersyte.