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This specific sense
of ‘physical deformity’ (rather than ‘moral corruption’)
also appears in English (OED, sense 3), but only from the mid seventeenth century.
s.
corruption, deformity:
(
c.1292; MS: c.1300
)
[...] hors de commune pur lepre del alme sicum meseyl pur lepre (var. (A: s.xiv) pur la pravité) del cors
i 322 (var.)
pravité (s.xiv)