I.crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity (class.).
I. Lit.: “pravitas membrorum,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 29: “corporis pravitates,” id. Leg. 1, 19, 51: “oris,” a distorting of the mouth in speaking, id. de Or. 2, 22, 91; id. Fin. 5, 17, 47: “statuminum,” Col. 4, 20: “curvaturae,” Pall. 4, 11.—
II. Trop., irregularity, impropriety, bad condition, perverseness: “quae ista est pravitas Quaeve amentia?” Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 20: ne malā consuetudine ad aliquam deformitatem pravitatemque veniamus, impropriety in speaking, in gestures, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 136: “ominis,” a bad omen, Gell. 1, 22, 21: “tortuosae orationis,” id. 5, 20, 1.—
B. In partic., of character, viciousness, untowardness, perverseness, depravity: “animi,” perverseness, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 10, 40: “mentis,” Cic. Vatin. 6, 14: “in istā pravitate perstabitis?” id. Ac. 2, 8, 26: “consilii,” Tac. H. 3, 41: “interitus pravitatis,” Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 27; Tac. A. 14, 38: “morum,” id. H. 4, 44: “cordis,” Vulg. Deut. 29, 19 et saep.
