c. 1300 (transitive), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one," from Old French pervertir "pervert, undo, destroy" (12c.) and directly from Latin pervertere "overthrow, overturn," figuratively "to corrupt, subvert, abuse," literally "turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" (see per) + vertere "to turn" (see versus).
Related: Perverted; perverting. Replaced native froward, which embodies the same image. Old English had mishweorfed "perverted, inverted," an identical formation to the Latin word using native elements.
pervert (n.)
1660s, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate," from pervert (v.). Psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.
例文
1. He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
彼は司法の公正を妨害しようとしたと告発された。
2.Any reform will destroy and pervert our consitation.
いかなる改革も私たちの憲法を破壊し、歪曲します。
3.Reading such silly stories will pervert your taste for good books.
このような愚かな物語を読むと、良い本への嗜好が台無しになる。
4.He confessed that he was a religious believer，an admirer of capitalism，and a sexual pervert .
彼は宗教を信じ、資本主義を崇拝し、老いぼれていると自認した。
5.He couldn 't find another pervert to have a fight with closer to home？