"ponerology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Carl Immanuel Nitzsch, System of Christian doctrine, page 214",
          "text": "Christian ponerology is divided into two leading sections, that of sin or the bad participating in guilt, and that of death or the bad which has participated in the same.",
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          "ref": "1887, Isaak August Dorner, System of Christian Ethics, page 53",
          "text": "The end for which God created the world is not an impotent thought, but an earnest one, incessantly striving to become actual in the world; for which reason it cannot be thwarted by actual sin, which is to be treated of in ethical ponerology.",
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          "ref": "1958, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, page 27",
          "text": "To the charlatans who so desperately strive to perpetuate these pious frauds, such a threatened warm welcome is an essential feature of their gloomy ponerology — hence the puerile solemnity with which it continues to be invoked against all who temerously thumb the nose at their bogus thaumaturgy.",
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          "ref": "1962, Edgar Snow, The Other Side of the River: Red China Today, page 122",
          "text": "To call Mao either the saint or the devil of China is relevant only to those who see history as a branch of ponerology.",
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