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- Latin · derived fromdēprāvāre“pervert, distort, corrupt”
- Old French · derived fromdepraver
- Middle English · inherited fromdepraven
- English todaydeprave
From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.