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    Iniquity , n.; pl. Iniquities . [OE. iniquitee, F. iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous.]
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    1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
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      Till the world from his perfection fell
      Into all filth and foul iniquity.
      Spenser.

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    2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
      Milton.

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      Your iniquities have separated between you and your God.
      Is. lix. 2.

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    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.
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      Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit
      Of miming gets the opinion of a wit.
      B. Jonson.

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    Vice , n. [F., from L. vitium.]
    1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
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      Withouten vice of syllable or letter.
      Chaucer.

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      Mark the vice of the procedure.
      Sir W. Hamilton.

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    2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
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      I do confess the vices of my blood.
      Shak.

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      Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice.
      Milton.

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      When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
      The post of honor is a private station.
      Addison.

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    3. The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
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      ☞ This character was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, and was armed with a dagger of lath: one of his chief employments was to make sport with the Devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with the dagger of lath till he made him roar. The Devil, however, always carried him off in the end.
      Nares.

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      How like you the Vice in the play?
      . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody.
      B. Jonson.

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      Syn. -- Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. See Crime.
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