Prăv'i-ty, n.

n. [Lat. pravitas, from pravus, crooked, perverse; O. Fr. pravité, Pr. pravitat, pravetat, Sp. pravedad, It. pravità.] Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; depravity; especially, moral corruption; moral perversion; want of rectitude; as, the pravity of human nature. “The pravity of the will.” South.