One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
Moral perversion or corruption; wickedness, depravity; an instance of this. Now archaic.
Early 16th century; earliest use found in John Irland (c1440–1495), theologian. From Middle French pravité and its etymon classical Latin prāvitās crookedness, distortion, perverseness, depravity from prāvus + -tās. Compare Catalan pravitat, Spanish pravedad, Italian pravità.
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