If Prussia had any religion, it would be a northern perversion of Protestantism utterly distant from and indifferent to the controversies of Slavonic Catholics.
Such is the moral perversion worked by Kultur and the German theory of the State.
They, like our own suffering women, are the victims of a barbarous ideal of national glory, and a worse than barbarous perversion of patriotism, which in our opponents has become a kind of moral insanity.
It is strange, most strange, how generally this perversion of mind appears practically to exist.
Selfishness, then, I consider as a perversion of the natural and divinely-impressed instinct of self-love.
As my case demonstrates, they are now sometimes used for inquisitional purposes, which certainly is a great perversion of their original intent.
It is manifest that the agreement as to the pound of flesh, if it is to be recognised by a court of justice at all, cannot without the grossest perversion of justice be cancelled on the ground of its omitting to mention blood.
The gulf that separates between Shakespeare's Richard and the rest of humanity is no gross perversion of sentiment, nor the development of abnormal passions, nor a notable surrender in the struggle between interest and right.
He has duties to a state which professes to be Christian, but adopts a schismatical or hereticalperversion of Christianity as the religion of the state.
Delirium may occur in any stage of the disease, but differs from the delirium of typhoid and yellow fevers in showing a lessened degree of perversion of the reasoning faculties.
There is very often intolerance of light, tinnitus aurium, and loss or perversion of the senses of taste and smell.
It is necessary that your Lordships should see that Mr. Hastings has made use of a perversion of the names of authorized gifts to cover the most abominable and prostituted bribery.
If, on the other hand, he is affected with perversion (pederasty, etc.
The term masochism is applied by Krafft-Ebing to a form of sexual perversion described by Sacher-Masoch in several of his romances.
Pathological impulse to actions may, on the contrary, become dangerous and lead to violation, whether combined with perversionor not.
When a perversion has been acquired by auto-suggestion or by habit, especially in the case of onanism, hypnotic suggestion should always be employed.
This fact depends on convention, and sometimes on the absence orperversion of sexual feelings.
They are disheartened by their perversion and are so much ashamed of it that they often prefer to carry their secret to the grave rather than confide it to their doctor.
When perversion is recognized, the subject should not be treated as a criminal, nor even as a vicious individual, but as a patient afflicted with a nervous affection who is thereby dangerous to himself and others.
The duration of a perversion of this kind often depends on the power of the erotic image which suggested sexual desire.
It is only in cases where it is certain that the perversion is purely acquired and easily curable that marriage can be allowed, or the procreation of children.
Her brother Egerton called her "Gallows Athene"--an offensive perversion of the name of the lady she was called after.
The Professor cannot think of any form of perversion better than "Very discreditable to him.
Here is a terrible example of the procuring of an innocent girl for the perversion of a wealthy man.
The balance is paid by the resort keepers of the other districts of vice and by keepers of the "houses of call"--the places where men of wealth and bestialperversion seek for virgins on whom to wreak the fury of abandoned passions!
It has recognized in the perversion of woman a source of income and it has commercialized the vicious instincts, and the depraved desires of thousands of them.
When the Reverend gentleman was addressing the public his memory was strong enough to enable him to say, "sentence after sentence was put forth by Mr. Mangasarian which every scholar present knew to be a perversion of the facts.
But the moral perversion of the person who could soberly ask the question that Helwyse asked is not so easily disposed of.
The service began, none the less hallowed for the lovers, because for Manetho it was the solemn perversion of a sacred ceremony.
It is a perversion of language to apply the term "free agency" to such a case.
Such a perversion and stultification of the reasoning faculties was never excelled in any age or country.
Gerald's perversion is a great blow; but still, if it is to be, Frank will be provided for at least.
Man's lot now is a perversion of what it was at first, it is the punishment of primeval guilt now resting on us all.
Chronicles reaps the fruits of itsperversion of 2Kings xii.
Accompanying this we find once more a notable difference in point of mental attitude; what JE regards as unnatural, and only to be understood as a violent perversion of the original order, is in Q the most natural thing in the world.
It would be an unwarrantable perversion of the sacred text to infer from this reply that Jesus intended to detract from the praise bestowed on His Mother.
It is, therefore, a graveperversion of the sacred text to adduce these words in vindication of private interpretation of the Scriptures.
An opulent poet was ridiculous, the perversion of the sublime.
Neither of these constitutions separately, nor the two in combined harmony, can, without a gross and fraudulent perversion of language, be termed a Democracy.
Though a vassal of Beatrix of Provence, the Sire de Porceles was no devoted admirer of her husband, Charles of Anjou, and spoke with no concealment of the unhappy perversion of the Crusade.
The description applies, in all its force, to the systematic perversion of God's words by which all promises of millennial glory are wrested from their true sense, and referred to the dominion and grandeur of the Church of Rome.
Unquestionably, the principle can be abused by the wicked, and so can any truth whatever; but the principle of unquestioning obedience to human law is false, and needs noperversion to make it mischievous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perversion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
