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Meanings of licentiousness in English

Portuguese
devassidão
Catalan
llibertinatge

Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

devassidão
Portuguese
licenciosidade

The quality of being lewd and lascivious.

licenciosidade
Usage of licentiousness in English
1
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
2
The reign of Charles II was pre-eminently distinguished for licentiousness and debauchery.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
3
By relaxing all discipline he introduced disorder and licentiousness thro the colony.
The Columbiad: A Poem
4
But surely it should rather be called a preventive of English licentiousness.
The Infant System / For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Po...
5
Never was such licentiousness of description united to such delicacy of colouring.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
6
Gentlemen, I am decidedly opposed to making licentiousness a means of profit.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
7
It was an era of extravagance, bribery, corruption, oppression, licentiousness and lawlessness.
School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time
8
He had just come back, and complained bitterly of all the licentiousness.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
9
Despotism, or unbounded licentiousness, can endear no nation to any honest man.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
10
Viewing the matter from this stand-point, what wonder that licentiousness is rife!
Plain Facts for Old and Young
11
That under pretence of retirement and devotion they lived in idleness and licentiousness:
The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the ...
12
Not an anecdote survives that in any way suggests personal licentiousness.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
13
The sin of licentiousness prevails also to an alarming degree in many quarters.
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890
14
Poles and Cossacks, by their insolent licentiousness, injure him in the popular opinion.
Demetrius: A Play
15
All the lighter kinds of literature were deeply tainted by the prevailing licentiousness.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
16
BEERMANN.... Against immorality in the lower strata where it easily degenerates into licentiousness.
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