In-iq'ui-ty, n.
(in-ĭk′/wĭ-tȳ), n. [Lat. iniquitas, Fr. iniquité, Pr. iniquitat, Sp. iniquidad, Pg. iniquidade, It. iniquità. See infra.]
Sense 1. Absence of, or deviation from, equal or just dealing; want of rectitude; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of war, of the slave-trade, of a thief or dishonest person, and the like.
There is greater or less probability of a happy issue to a tedious war, according to the righteousness or iniquity of the cause for which it was commenced. Smallridge.
Sense 2. An act of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin or crime.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Isa. lix. 2.
Sense 3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See VICE.
Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. B. Jonson.