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perversion|pəˈvɜːʃən|
[ad. L. perversiōn-em, n. of action f. pervertĕre to pervert: cf. F. perversion (16th c. in Littré and Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. The action of perverting or condition of being perverted; turning the wrong way; turning aside from truth or right; diversion to an improper use; corruption, distortion; spec. change to error in religious belief (opp. to conversion 8); transf. a perverted or corrupted form of something.
1388Wyclif Prol. 45 If the speche of holi writ seme to comaunde peruersion of soule..it is figuratijf speche. 1563Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1674 Suffr[agan]. We seeke not thy bloud but thy conuersion. Shet[erden]. Then shall you proue my peruersion first before you condemn me. 1619Cornwallis Let. to Digby in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 362 Contrariwise, there might be great danger of the infanta's perversion. 1622Bacon Holy War Wks. 1879 I. 528/2 Women to govern men,..slaves freemen,..being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. ii. iii. 45 Miraculous Perversions of the Course of Nature. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 261 The perversion of history, by those, who, for the same nefarious purposes, have perverted every other part of learning. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 331 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits. 1873Black Pr. Thule xi, The statement was an audacious perversion of the truth. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 11 Perversion of the functions of digestion, assimilation, and nutrition.
b. Psychol. A disorder of sexual behaviour in which satisfaction is sought through channels other than those of normal heterosexual intercourse.
1892D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. II. 1156/2 Sexual perversion, an innate perversion or ‘inversion’ of the sexual feelings with consciousness of its morbid nature... A passion for the sex to which the sufferer belongs, instead of the normal inclination to the opposite sex. 1894H. Ellis Man & Woman xvi. 365 Sexual perversions, again, are more common in men than in women. 1937J. S. Plant Personality ii. viii. 223 A perversion in sexual expression has nothing at all to do with the form of the act but only with its purpose. 1948A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male viii. 264 Perversions are defined as unnatural acts, acts contrary to nature, bestial, abominable, and detestable. Such laws are interpretable only in accordance with the ancient tradition of the English common law which..is committed to the doctrine that no sexual activity is justifiable unless its objective is procreation. 1949J. Strachey tr. Freud's Three Ess. Theory of Sexuality i. 28 Even in the most normal sexual process we may detect rudiments which, if they had developed, would have led to the deviations described as ‘perversions’. Ibid. 37 Extreme cases of masochistic perversion. 1967Brussel & Cantzlaar Chambers's Dict. Psychiatry 88 Exhibitionism, a form of sexual perversion in which erotic gratification is obtained from the exposure of parts of the body that have sexual significance. 1968C. Rycroft Crit. Dict. Psychoanal. 88 Masochism, sexual perversion in which the subject claims to get erotic pleasure from having pain inflicted upon himself. 1973I. Singer Goals of Human Sexuality 156 It would be erroneous to assume that the so-called perversions are merely alternative attitudes, as desirable as any other sexual possibility.
2. a. Geom. The formation of the perverse of a figure; the perverse itself.
1881Maxwell Electr. & Magn. II. 415 They are geometrically alike in all respects, except that one is the perversion of the other, like its image in a looking glass. 1900J. Larmor æther & Matter 208 The change from a molecule to its enantiograph involves..perversion of its orbital configuration.
b. Med. and Surg. See quots.
1842Dunglison Med. Lex., Perversion, one of the four modifications of function in disease: the three others being augmentation, diminution, and abolition. The Humorists used the term also, to designate disorder or morbid change in the fluids. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex. 920/1 Diastremma, or distortion of a part: a perversion. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 693 A sensory perversion or defect. |
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