In*iq"ui*ty (?), n.; pl.
Iniquities (#). [OE. iniquitee, F.
iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness,
injustice. See Iniquous.]
1. Absence of, or deviation from, just
dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice;
unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the
iniquity of an unjust judge.
Till the world from his perfection fell
Into all filth and foul iniquity.
Spenser.
2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of
injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
Milton.
Your iniquities have separated between you and
your God.
Is. lix. 2.
3. A character or personification in the old
English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one
vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit
Of miming gets the opinion of a wit.
B.
Jonson.
