The act or process of depraving someone; moral corruption or degradation.
From deprave + -ment (noun-forming suffix, from Old French -ment, Latin -mentum). This suffix creates nouns describing actions or results, as in 'amazement' or 'agreement.'
The -ment suffix came from Latin and was already ancient when English borrowed it—it's been our go-to ending for turning verbs into nouns for over 1,000 years.
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