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Evil
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
(3):
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
(4):
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
(7):
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Evil'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/evil.html. 1828.
