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total depravity
noun
- the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
total depravity
noun
- Calvinist the doctrine that man's nature is totally corrupt as a result of the Fall
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Word History and Origins
Origin of total depravity1
First recorded in 1785–95
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Example Sentences
If yu don't beleaf in "total depravity," buy a quart ov gin and studdy it.
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Only a few years ago a man had to believe in the total depravity of the human heart in order to be respectable.
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The Professor had too much of the pride of total depravity left in him for that.
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Then, for the fust time in my life, I bleeved in total depravity.
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Miserable sinners, born into total depravity could only employ their brief sojourn on earth in striving to save their souls.
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