turpitude

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitūdō (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ)pɪtjuːd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɜɹpətuːd/
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Noun

turpitude (countable and uncountable, plural turpitudes)

  1. Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
      As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
  2. An act evident of such depravity.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turpitūdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

turpitude f (plural turpitudes)

  1. turpitude (depravity, wickedness)
  2. turpitude (depraved or wicked act)

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