Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being licentious; want of due restraint in any respect; especially, dissolute or profligate conduct; sexual immorality.
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- noun The property of being
licentious .
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- noun dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- noun the quality of being lewd and lascivious
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Examples
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Thus the term licentiousness, which means in a strict sense the wish to do whatever you want, moral or immoral, whether good or bad for you.
Starbucks illustrates the weakness of global economy Athanasius 2007
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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Jesus Christ 2009
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Philosophy 2009
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Licentiousness would involve rape because one of the definitions of licentiousness is lacking sexual restraint.
Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage. 2010
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
Theology 2009
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Shepard posits a jungle paradise where sexual licentiousness is imposed by the environment, leaving humans helpless to do anything but engage wholeheartedly in the perverse.
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Freedom understood as licentiousness is a false freedom.
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An eloquent statesman, now gone to his rest, had come into public life at a period when the mad fervour of the French revolution had inclined men to think that liberty, as they termed licentiousness and anarchy, was the greatest blessing bestowed by God upon man, had himself strongly imbibed that feeling and did much to impress it especially upon Kentucky and Maryland.
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