iniquité
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inīquitātem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ni.ki.te/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophone: iniquités
Noun
iniquité f (plural iniquités)
- iniquity
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter IV:
- [J]e suis le valeureux don Quichotte de la Manche, le défaiseur de torts et le réparateur d’iniquités.
- ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.
Related terms
Further reading
- “iniquité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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