Terms vs Pravity - What's the difference?
terms | pravity |
(obsolete) perversion, depravity
*{{quote-book, year=1667, author=John Milton, title=Paradise Lost, chapter=, edition=
, passage=To whom thus Michael. Doubt not but that sin
Will reign among them, as of thee begot;
And therefore was law given them, to evince
Their natural pravity , by stirring up
Sin against law to fight: that when they see
Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude
Some blood more precious must be paid for Man;
Just for unjust; that, in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed, they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience; which the law by ceremonies
Cannot appease; nor Man the mortal part
Perform; and, not performing, cannot live.}}*{{quote-book, year=1775, author=Samuel Johnson, title=A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, chapter=Ostig In Sky, edition=
, passage=In some parishes the Lord's Prayer is suffered: in others it is still rejected as a form; and he that should make it part of his supplication would be suspected of heretical pravity .}}
*{{quote-book, year=1831, author=Various, title=The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Still, it is possible, that a man's conscience may be so obdurate, as not to perceive the pravity of mendacity, when exercised for his supposed benefit, while he yet retains a regard for truth when engaged in relating his exploits to others. }}
As nouns the difference between terms and pravity
is that terms is while pravity is (obsolete) perversion, depravity.pravity
English
Noun
citation
Will reign among them, as of thee begot;
And therefore was law given them, to evince
Their natural pravity , by stirring up
Sin against law to fight: that when they see
Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude
Some blood more precious must be paid for Man;
Just for unjust; that, in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed, they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience; which the law by ceremonies
Cannot appease; nor Man the mortal part
Perform; and, not performing, cannot live.}}
citation
citation