Do we say inequity or iniquity

inequity 2 occurrences

There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this was less due to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs to maintain such a state of affairs, than to the fact that the organization generally had expanded upon lines with little regard to the future.

He believed at that time that the League of Nations was going to kill war, that the Labour Party were going to kill industrial inequity, that the country was going to kill the Coalition Government, that the Christian Church was going to kill selfishness, that some one was going to kill Horatio Bottomley, and that we were all going to kill Potterism.

iniquity 590 occurrences

Conquest of Flanders Its iniquity Invasion of Holland Easy victories Rise of William of Nassau Prevents the conquest of Holland Peace of Nimeguen Louis in the zenith of power His aggrandizement His palaces His court His mistresses His friendship with Madame de Maintenon Elevation of Maintenon Religious persecution Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Coalition against Louis XIV.

" "Perhaps all that I have now offered may be of very little weight to restrain this enormity, this aggravated iniquity.

If you of the United States see the great law of humanity outraged by another nation, and see it silently, raising no warning voice against it, you virtually become a party to the offence; as you do not reprove it, you embolden the offender to add iniquity unto iniquity.

If you of the United States see the great law of humanity outraged by another nation, and see it silently, raising no warning voice against it, you virtually become a party to the offence; as you do not reprove it, you embolden the offender to add iniquity unto iniquity.

It will be hardly imputed to Elizabeth for iniquity that she did not consider that the end of government was the enrichment of contractors.

The haven was surely there, waiting those who have lost faith in dogmas, who wish to understand the meaning of their lives, in the midst of the apparent iniquity of the world.

It will be iniquity, greater than a Lovelace was ever guilty of, to carry them farther than I shall acknowledge.

If the lady stay any time, and think fit, upon better acquaintance, to let me into her case, it may be a happy day for her, if I find it a just one; for, you must know, that when I was at the bar, I never was such a sad fellow as to undertake, for the sake of a paltry fee, to make white black, and black white: For what would that have been, but to endeavour to establish iniquity by quirks, while I robbed the innocent?

Florence became a hot-bed of immorality and a sink of iniquity.

Nobody appreciates more intensely than I do the danger, the mischief, and a thousand times in history the iniquity of what is called "reason of State."

But, having encountered the object of their fears, and endured the shame of a trialshame and fear are alike gone for ever; and when once they find their way into those sinks of iniquity, there is very little hope of amendment.

I submit to your judgments whether this Government, having been the first to prohibit by adequate penalties the slave trade, the first to declare it piracy, should not be the first also to forbid to its citizens all trade with the slave factories on the coast of Africa, giving an example to all nations in this respect which if fairly followed can not fail to produce the most effective results in breaking up those dens of iniquity.

With a yell of anguish, he fell forward, and was instantly stifled in the glowing torrent, which in a short time flooded the whole chamber, burying the two partners in iniquity, and the whole of their ill-gotten gains, in its burning waves.

" But unto those on His left hand, He'll say, "Depart from me, I know ye not, ye always sin, And do iniquity.

It was not, however, my boyhood alone that caused me to hold this man as a monster of iniquity; it was the opinion which the whole county entertained of him, more or less.

He was now courted by the highest artists in iniquity, and had the means of accomplishing results that none but men who are known to be really rich can command.

The shrieks and the agony often witnessed on such occasions, proclaim with a trumpet tongue the iniquity and cruelty of the system.

I spoke of the iniquity and cruelty of slavery, and of its immediate abandonment.

but arbitrary power has wrought in them its mystery of iniquity, and poisoned their better nature with its infuriating sorcery.

It would be a waste of time to argue that question, until the people are regenerated and turned from their iniquity.

Or did they derive their support from the wages of iniquity and the price of blood!

3. "Pardon our iniquity, and take us for thine inheritance.

Thus, Psalm 94:20-23. 'Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with them which frame mischief by a law, and gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood?

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off' So also Isaiah 10:1-4. '

Those very laws which, by a perception of their iniquity, drove me to what I am, preclude my return.

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