Dissoluteness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of restraint; excess. obsolete, uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures wordnet
  3. 3
    Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness. uncountable, usually

    "Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese."

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abandonabjectioncorruptiondebaucherydecadencedegeneration

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"Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese."

Etymology

From dissolute + -ness.

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