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Definition of Licentious
1. Adjective. Lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained. "Coarse and licentious men"
Definition of Licentious
1. a. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
Definition of Licentious
1. Adjective. Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct. ¹
2. Adjective. Disregarding accepted rules. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licentious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licentious
Literary usage of Licentious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The poetical works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes by Samuel Butler (1893)
"SATIRE UPON THE licentious AGE OF CHARLES II. ... this is particularly levelled
at the licentious and debauched times of Charles II. humorously contrasted ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"The majority of the people supported the glory of the Christen licentious mannen
of the people of Astloch C of Gaul and the discipline and spirit of the ..."
3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"The Power of the Church respecting Articles of Faith, and its licentious Perversion
under the Papacy to the Corruption of all Purity of Doctrine. ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Probably from the licentious turn of some of that poet's Tales. It was probably
esteemed a fine wine, being introduced with sack in the first-cited passage, ..."
5. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... not free from the darker lusts which deformed Florentine society in that
epoch.1 The loves to which he yielded were animal, licentious, almost brutal; ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... they protected their plundering and licentious followers, and paid no heed to
the complaints of the English: while their zeal for William's policy of ..."
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