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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Iniquity \In*iq"ui*ty\, n.; pl {Iniquities}. [OE. iniquitee F. iniquit['e], L. iniquitas inequality, unfairness, injustice. See {Iniquous}.] 1. Absence of or deviation from just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. --Spenser. 2. An iniquitous act or thing a deed of injustice o? unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. --Milton. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. --Is. lix. 2. 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}. Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. --B. Jonson
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