Lapse+from+virtue

  • 1deviate from virtue — index lapse (fall into error) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2slip from virtue — index lapse (fall into error) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3lapse — 1 / laps/ n: a termination or failure due to events, neglect, or time: as a: the failure of a bequest (as because the intended recipient dies before the testator) compare anti lapse statute b: the termination of an insurance policy because of… …

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  • 4Lapse — Lapse, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lapsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lapsing}.] 1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; mostly restricted to figurative uses. [1913 Webster] A tendency to lapse… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 5lapse — lapser, n. /laps/, n., v., lapsed, lapsing. n. 1. an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice. 2. a slip or error,… …

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  • 6lapse — [[t]læps[/t]] n. v. lapsed, laps•ing 1) an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state: a lapse of justice[/ex] 2) a slip or error, often of a trivial sort: a lapse of memory[/ex] 3) an interval or …

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  • 7Merzbow discography — Masami Akita discography Releases ↙Studio albums 260 ↙Live albums 65 …

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  • 8faux pas — [Fr.] 1. Mistake, blunder, indiscretion, false step, false stroke, act of indiscretion. 2. Lapse from virtue, lapse from chastity, false step, lapse, slip, misstep, indiscretion …

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  • 9HOSEA, BOOK OF — HOSEA, BOOK OF, the first of the 12 books that make up the minor prophets . Everything points to this book s having been produced in the kingdom of israel and redacted, after the fall of that state, in Judah; and this makes it a valuable source… …

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  • 10wrong — adj 1. bad, immoral, sinful, peccant, wrongful; unlawful, illegal, lawless, illicit, law breaking, illegitimate, Inf. illegit, criminal, felonious, larcenous, delinquent; dishonest, corrupt, crooked, malfeasant, misfeasant, degenerate, depraved,… …

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