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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



... in the former portions of our story, we made a slight allusion to one Sophia Franklin. She, excellent young lady! shall redeem us from the imputation of total depravity. Her virtue and goodness shall illumine our dark pages with a celestial light—even though her mother and sister ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
... in his Journal a sad, sad disclosure of total depravity which was exposed by one of these sudden church-awakenings, and the story is best told in the journalist's ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle


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