Definition of "pervert"

pervert

/ˈpəː.vət/

noun
plural perverts
1. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
2. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
  Quotations
  I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.
  1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 24, in The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company
verb
third-person singular simple present perverts, present participle perverting, simple past and past participle perverted
1. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
  Quotations
  Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
  1623, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
2. (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
  Quotations
  He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
  1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
  He was a good Proteſtant, but when he fell into the Jeſuits hands, they ſoon perverted him, and made him embrace the Roman Catholick Religion […]
  1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page vi
  A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
  2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎
3. To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
4. to misinterpret designedly.
5. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
  Quotations
  After that worde, "better is it to dey than lyve false," and al wolde perverted people false reporte make
  c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

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