01 n. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
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A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.“Withouten vice of syllable or letter.” — Chaucer.“Mark the vice of the procedure.” — Sir W. Hamilton.
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A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.“I do confess the vices of my blood.” — Shak.“Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice.” — Milton.“When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.” — Addison.
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The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity. Also: Iniquity“How like you the Vice in the play? . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody.” — B. Jonson.