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What (who) is Evil - definition

PROFOUND IMMORALITY
Evilness; Concept of evil; Evildoers; Evil doers; Evil purpose; Evildoer; Evil Doer; User:Hahnchen/E; Evil people; Dark-hearted; Evildoing; Evil doing; Evils; Bad (ethics); Nature of evil; Evildoings
  • The [[devil]], in opposition to the will of God, represents evil and tempts Christ, the personification of the character and will of God. [[Ary Scheffer]], 1854.
  • Sendan Kendatsuba, one of the eight guardians of [[Buddhist law]], banishing evil in one of the five paintings of ''[[Extermination of Evil]]''.
  • ''[[Extermination of Evil]]'', The God of Heavenly Punishment, from the Chinese tradition of [[yin and yang]]. Late [[Heian period]] (12th-century Japan).

evil         
I
adj. evil to + inf. (it is evil to kill)
II
n.
1) to do evil
2) to root out evil
3) an unmitigated; necessary evil
4) (misc.) the lesser of two evils
Evil         
·noun malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
II. Evil ·adv In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
III. Evil ·adj Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
IV. Evil ·adj Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
V. Evil ·noun Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm;
- opposed to good.
VI. Evil ·adj Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
VII. Evil ·noun Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
evil         
¦ adjective
1. extremely wicked and immoral.
embodying or associated with the forces of the devil.
harmful or tending to harm.
2. extremely unpleasant: an evil smell.
¦ noun great wickedness and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.
?something harmful or undesirable: social evils.
Phrases
the evil eye a gaze or stare superstitiously believed to cause harm.
the Evil One archaic the Devil.
speak evil of slander.
Derivatives
evilly adverb
evilness noun
Origin
OE yfel, of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Evil

Evil, in a general sense, is defined as the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness and against common good. It is generally seen as taking multiple possible forms, such as the form of personal moral evil commonly associated with the word, or impersonal natural evil (as in the case of natural disasters or illnesses), and in religious thought, the form of the demonic or supernatural/eternal. While some religions, world views, and philosophies focus on "good versus evil", others deny evil's existence and usefulness in describing people.

Evil can denote profound immorality, but typically not without some basis in the understanding of the human condition, where strife and suffering (cf. Hinduism) are the true roots of evil. In certain religious contexts, evil has been described as a supernatural force. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its motives. Elements that are commonly associated with personal forms of evil involve unbalanced behavior including anger, revenge, hatred, psychological trauma, expediency, selfishness, ignorance, destruction and neglect.

In some forms of thought, evil is also sometimes perceived as the dualistic antagonistic binary opposite to good, in which good should prevail and evil should be defeated. In cultures with Buddhist spiritual influence, both good and evil are perceived as part of an antagonistic duality that itself must be overcome through achieving Nirvana. The ethical questions regarding good and evil are subsumed into three major areas of study: meta-ethics concerning the nature of good and evil, normative ethics concerning how we ought to behave, and applied ethics concerning particular moral issues. While the term is applied to events and conditions without agency, the forms of evil addressed in this article presume one or more evildoers.

Examples of use of Evil
1. "We‘re not blindly united like the other side is, where they are like the three monkeys, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil.
2. "It is a choice between evil and the lesser evil," she wrote in her ruling.
3. "In Hawaii, it‘s sort of like: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," said Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling.
4. Unfortunately evil come in many forms, some of the most evil people look harmless.
5. "Our global policy has been hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil and so we have ended up doing no good." The Rev.