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Definition of Perversion
Perversion

The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.

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Perversion Quotations

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass

War is a perversion of sex.
Alan Moore

Perversion Translations

perversion in German is Verdrehung, Perversion


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