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Evil | Evil \E"vil\ ([=e]"v'l) n. 1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to {good}. [1913 Webster] Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The evil that men do lives after them. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity. [1913 Webster] The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. --Eccl. ix. 3. [1913 Webster] 3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase {king's evil}, the scrofula. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil. --Addison. [1913 Webster] |
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