iniquity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun absence of moral or spiritual values
    dark; darkness; wickedness.
    • the powers of darkness
  2. noun morally objectionable behavior
    wickedness; evil; immorality.
  3. noun an unjust act
    unfairness; shabbiness; injustice.

WordNet

In*iq"ui*ty noun
Etymology
OE. iniquitee, F. iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous.
Wordforms
plural Iniquities
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913