Definition of Dissipations

1. Noun. (plural of dissipation) ¹

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Definition of Dissipations

1. dissipation [n] - See also: dissipation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissipations

dissing
dissipable
dissipate
dissipated
dissipatedly
dissipatedness
dissipater
dissipaters
dissipates
dissipating
dissipation
dissipation function
dissipation functions
dissipational
dissipationless
dissipations (current term)
dissipative
dissipatively
dissipativities
dissipativity
disslander
dissociabilities
dissociability
dissociable
dissocial
dissocialize
dissocialized
dissocializes
dissocializing
dissociate

Literary usage of Dissipations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"But his ambition prevented him from allowing his dissipations to interfere with his studies. His son Adeodatus was born in the summer of 372, ..."

2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"... I have begun two or three letters to yon by matches, and been presented from finishing them by a thousand avocations and dissipations. SWIFT. ..."

3. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
""I am sure it is better to marry a man like Mr. Gilyard than to plunge into the dissipations of Washington." The setting hen struck out promptly and ..."

4. The Great Violinists and Pianists by George Titus Ferris (1881)
"Paganini's Youthful dissipations. —His Passion for Gambling.—He acquires his 'Wonderful Guarnerius Violin.—His Reform from the Gaming-table. ..."

5. The Chinese, Their Present and Future: Medical, Political, and Social by Robert Coltman (1891)
"dissipations. PROSTITUTION is one of the vices that is universal, and exists in China, as in all civilized and uncivilized countries of the globe. ..."

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