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pravité (s.xiv)

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  FEW:  pravus 9,336b Gdf:  pravité 6,365c GdfC: TL: DEAF:  prave (pravité)  DMF:  pravité  TLF: OED:  pravity n.  MED: DMLBS:  pravitas 2446a
 

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.

1corruption, 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.)
prave  praver 
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