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Meanings of wantonness in inglês

português
licenciosidade

The quality of being lewd and lascivious.

        licenciosidade

        The trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry.

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              Examples for "abandon"
              Examples for "abandon"
              1
              MANY third level students will abandon lectures today to hold protest demonstrations.
              The Irish Times
              2
              King's Landing was lost, all agreed; they must need abandon the city.
              Dangerous Women
              3
              A preliminary injunction often leads to companies deciding to abandon their deal.
              Reuters
              4
              Cut production; abandon the factories in the immediate path of the Grass.
              Greener Than You Think
              5
              They suffered a good deal and had to abandon their home, twice.
              The Irish Times
              1
              How chaste this lovely young wife was in her unconstraint!
              A Romance of Youth — Volume 1
              2
              The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint.
              Poems by Walt Whitman
              3
              What good humor, what unconstraint, what delightful ease!
              Women of Modern France
              4
              The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint;
              Leaves of Grass
              5
              Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.
              The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
              Usage of wantonness in inglês
              1
              He was as infamous in wantonness as Frode was illustrious in war.
              The Danish History, Books I-IX
              2
              Curiosity and wantonness made me escape with him; you know the rest.
              The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
              3
              With the last gleam of day it left the stage to wantonness.
              Trail's End
              4
              Partly for wantonness, partly to vent his spleen upon some living creature.
              The Poor Clare
              5
              Think of my wantonness-mywickedness-notof my poor, tormented attempts at happiness.
              King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays
              6
              This is the very wantonness of cheap goods and an unfettered commerce!
              The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
              7
              And you, O new made husband, how tumble you now in wantonness!
              The Ten Pleasures of Marriage / and the Second Part, The Confess...
              8
              What insolence and wantonness rather, has he omitted in refusing to come?
              Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
              9
              Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness.
              The first New Testament printed in English
              10
              So in sheer wantonness of joy we sought relief in bantering one another.
              The Yeoman Adventurer
              11
              No other piece of wantonness equaled it in the tumultuous history of Versailles.
              The Story of Versailles
              12
              This being accomplished they would torture and murder the traders in mere wantonness.
              Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson
              13
              He devastates his own kingdom in the wantonness of his force.
              The Mirror of the Sea
              14
              The wantonness and sort of rage of it all appalled one.
              My War Experiences in Two Continents
              15
              It was something unusual, and brought out the ingenuity and wantonness of cruelty.
              The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our...
              16
              Because, in Mother's opinion, foreigners were synonymous with wantonness and debauchery.
              Petals from the sky
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              Translations for wantonness
              português
              licenciosidade
              Wantonness through the time
              Wantonness across language varieties
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