Licentiousness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LICENTIOUSNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• LICENTIOUS, characterized by license; abusive of freedom
• the quality of being lewd and lascivious
• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
ADJECTIVE:
• promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
• disregarding accepted conventions, especially in grammar or literary style.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking legal or moral restraints; disregarding sexual restraints

Words related to LICENTIOUSNESS

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Words that contain LICENTIOUSNESS

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How to use LICENTIOUSNESS in a sentence

• Her first desire was to purify the court where licentiousness in either sex had long been the surest road to royal favor.
• The principal cause no doubt is in the prevailing licentiousness.
• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
• Religious prostitution and theological licentiousness prevailed also in Persia, Babylonia, Egypt, and other ancient civilized countries.
• The masterly pen which inflicted such signal chastisement on the early licentiousness of Moore, should not have been idle on that occasion.
• The elaborate defence of slavery by Chancellor Harper of South Carolina justifies the heaviest accusations, that have been brought against it on the score of licentiousness.
• He had acquired the habit of using large quantities of whiskey and brandy, and withal more or less given to licentiousness.
• Nothing happened at court but drinking, licentiousness, and continual murders.
• Their hatred of sensuality and immorality led them to regard with aversion the sports and exercises of the gymnasium and the attendant licentiousness.
• Steele was among the first who set about reforming the licentiousness of the old comedy.
• It must be observed, that he is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that his licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth.
• Rum and licentiousness are sure to work untold harm to the Indian unless they are met by the gospel.
• His court was filled with men who recommended themselves chiefly by their licentiousness.
• The former runs into mysticism and magic in complicated observances, and the latter into the most appalling licentiousness.
• But he has probably caused as much harm by the licentiousness of his style, as he has accomplished good by his pleas for the poor.
• Although he was continually surrounded by licentiousness he proved true to her who had first gained his affections.
• This Mary, before her conversion, lived in Alexandria at the end of the fourth century and was famous for her licentiousness.
• Their lifeelement, esteem, is death to licentiousness.
• But he was also fond of pleasure, and was conspicuous even among the Romans for licentiousness and debauchery.
• He rarely drinks to excess, for that would unfit him for his work, and he is not usually given to licentiousness, for a similar reason.
• Licentiousness sapped their vitality and weakened their prowess.
• Liberty of commerce between the sexes was indulged, but without any licentiousness of manners.
• Wilberforce and other pious gentlemen, he had issued a royal proclamation against vice and immorality, and all kinds of Swearing, drunkenness, and licentiousness.
• He was an ardent advocate of liberty, but not of licentiousness.
• They besides lived in a most disorderly manner, devoid of discipline, and gave infinite offence to the natives by their licentiousness.
• What was the source of his madness? There is a vague tradition that it arose from licentiousness, which, no doubt is sometimes the cause of insanity.
• Ford, a man in whom both talents and good dispositions were disgraced by licentiousness, but who was a very able judge of what was right.
• But once more you are to remember, that I am only speaking of those people not yet converted to Christianity, by which this licentiousness is not allowed.

Similar words containing LICENTIOUSNES without suffix s

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