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Definition of Debaucheries
1. debauchery [n] - See also: debauchery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debaucheries
Literary usage of Debaucheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"... whose debaucheries roused the resentment of his nobles, and produced a most
singular insurrection, which led to the aggrandisement of the Spanish ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"... mimics and catamites, of the former court, grew out of fashion; and the nobility
and courtiers, who did not quite abandon their debaucheries, ..."
3. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"Tin's unhappy man by his debaucheries wore out his constitution soon after thirty,
and fell into a state of disease and debility that put him upon studying ..."
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