Traditional Culture and Modern Culture: Man's Fall from Grace. In some ways, traditional culture and modern culture are alike. Any culture is a system of learned and shared meanings. People learn and share things over the course of generations, and so we say they are a culture. Traditional and modern culture function similarly because both are ways of thinking, ways of relating to people and to the universe.
Turpitude is defined as wickedness or sinfulness. An example of turpitude is behavior considered immoral and sinful by society. 1  baseness; vileness; depravity.  an instance of this.
Word Origin and History for turpitude Expand. n. depravity, infamy, late 15c., from Middle French turpitude (early 15c.), from Latin turpitudinem (nominative turpitudo) baseness, from turpis vile, ugly, base, shameful, used in both the moral and the physical senses; of unknown origin. Perhaps originally what one turns away from (cf.