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Definition of Dissipations
1. dissipation [n] - See also: dissipation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissipations
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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