"to find yourself, at length, in a land where iniquity is searched out"
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Iniquity means a gross injustice or wickedness. I have never heard this word before this book.
A reference for vocabulary words in American Literature
According to dictionary.com it is pronounced [i-nik-wi-tee].
ReplyDeleteIniquity can be more simply described as a sin.
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