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Total depravity   /tˈoʊtəl dɪprˈævəti/   Listen
Total depravity

noun
1.
The Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin.





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"Total depravity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Socinians; followers of the teaching of Lalius and Faustus Socinus (16th century), which denied the doctrine of the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement and eternal punishment. The Socinians are now represented by the Unitarians. Manicheans; followers of Manes or Manichaeus (3rd century), a Persian who maintained that there are two principles, the one good and the ...
— Candide • Voltaire
... responsible for it all, you little imp!" She shook her finger at the fat, bright blue pitcher with flaming vermilion roses on either side, as it stood on the mantelpiece in blissful unconsciousness of its total depravity. ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things," she ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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