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immorality (usually uncountable, plural immoralities)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
  2. (countable) An immoral act or practice.
    • 1997, Emily Assami, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley, transl., The Qur'an (Saheeh International Translation), surah 7, verse 28:
      And when they commit an immorality, they say, "We found our fathers doing it, and Allah has ordered us to do it."
      [original: وَإِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً قَالُوا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهَا آبَاءَنَا وَٱللَٰهُ أَمَرَنَا بِهَا]
      waʔiḏā faʕalū fāḥišatan qālū wajadnā ʕalayhā ʔābāʔanā wal-lāhu ʔamaranā bihā
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