Iniquities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Iniquity \In*iq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. {Iniquities}. [OE. iniquitee, F.
     iniquit['e], 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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