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noun

Pervert n. One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert. "That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre."

verb

Pervert v. t. (past & past part. perverted; pres. part. perverting)

To turn another way; to divert. (Obs.) "Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath."

To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret intentionally; as, to pervert one's words. "He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve."

Pervert v. i. To become perverted; to take the wrong course. (R.)

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"Pervert" Quotes from Famous Books

... all now," he said, "and if after this I hear of a single perversion, woe be unto that pervert, for it is better for his miserable soul that he had never been born. Is there a man here base enough to sell his birthright for a mess of Mr. Lucre's pottage? Is there a man here, who is not too strongly imbued ...

— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... theologian, because the first man, beguiled by the first woman, ate an apple, which God had forbidden him to touch. Who beguiled this woman into such folly? The devil. Who made the devil? God. But, why did God make this devil, destined to pervert mankind? This is unknown; it is a mystery which the Deity alone is ...

— Good Sense - 1772 • Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach

... the race. Nutrition is a purely selfish process; reproduction is purely unselfish in its object; though the human species—unlike the lower animals, which, while less intelligent, are far more true to nature—too often pervert its functions to the ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... subject, and to show how many persons strive to pervert praiseworthy enterprises, I will instance again the people of St. Malo and others, who say that the profit of these discoveries belongs to them, since Jacques Cartier, who first visited Canada and the islands of New Foundland, ...

— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain V3 • Samuel de Champlain

... it for a moment," answered my father, cheerfully. "Nor have I introduced them. But if you fear they'll convert—pervert—subvert—invert your parishioners and turn 'em into papists, I can reassure you. For in the first place thirty men, or thirty thousand, of whom only one can open his mouth, are, for proselytizing, equal to one man and ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

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