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Despicableness

noun
1.
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.  Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness.






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... soul, which the churches call Sin, and which, by whatever name we call it, is a very real catastrophe in the moral nature of man. He had no eye, like Dante's, for the vileness, the cruelty, the utter despicableness to which humanity may be moulded. If he saw them at all, it was through the softening and illusive medium of generalised phrases. Nor was he ever shocked and driven into himself by 'the immoral thoughtlessness' of men. The courses of nature, and the prodigious ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson • John Morley



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